{"id":965703,"date":"2025-10-03T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965703"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:29:48","slug":"spotify-founder-daniel-eks-next-act-long-bets-in-european-defence-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/spotify-founder-daniel-eks-next-act-long-bets-in-european-defence-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify founder Daniel Ek&#8217;s next act: Long bets in European defence, health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM: When Daniel Ek founded Spotify in 2006, a viable music product was a &#8220;moon shot.&#8221; The global music industry was struggling with years of declining sales, online music piracy was rampant, and services like Apple&#8217;s iTunes were pricey. <\/p>\n<p>Ek believed if access to music was as easy as turning on a tap &#8211; in a way that was legal and fair to artists &#8211; users would come. The key was streaming, not downloads, an idea that revolutionized the industry and catapulted Spotify into a $140 billion music powerhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM: When Daniel Ek founded Spotify in 2006, a viable music product was a &#8220;moon shot.&#8221; The global music industry was struggling with years of declining sales, online music piracy was rampant, and services like Apple&#8217;s iTunes were pricey. Ek believed if access to music was as easy as turning on a tap &#8211; in a way that was legal and fair to artists &#8211; users would come. The key was streaming, not downloads, an idea that revolutionized the industry and catapulted Spotify into a $140 billion music powerhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}