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Daniel Ek

Founder & Executive Chairman, Spotify Technology

Search every verified Daniel Ek interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify and its executive chairman since January 1, appeared on the All-In podcast on September 28, 2026, to discuss his post-Spotify activities, including his healthcare venture Neko Health. He described the company's $499 body scan model, stating that its vertically integrated approach allows for positive unit economics and profitable clinics. Ek said Neko Health has conducted over 100,000 scans since its 2018 founding and that published data shows around 1% of members have a serious undiagnosed medical condition discovered through the scans. He also noted plans to expand from New York to Miami, Washington, D.C., and other U.S. locations over the next 12 to 24 months. During the interview, Ek discussed the U.S. healthcare system, saying it spends 18% of GDP on healthcare and that heart disease alone costs hundreds of billions of dollars. He also addressed artificial intelligence, commenting on the industry's failure to sell its benefits to the public and the debate over open versus closed models. Additionally, Ek reflected on Spotify's origins, including its efforts to combat piracy and the company's shift to podcasting with open standards.

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“I think first and foremost the important thing to mention is as I mentioned we started this in 2018. So this company's been around for 8 years. We've done more than 100,000 scans already. So we actually publish data every year. We've just published our third year data survey where we go through the health outcomes that we have across our members and around 1% of our members have a serious underlying medical situation”

“I started researching the space a very very long time ago. Maybe just as a quick primer for the audience, the US is spending 18% of its GDP on healthcare. It's the single largest line item in the budget right now. And if you take heart disease alone, it's in the hundreds of billions of dollars that are being spent on that disease group alone in the US alone. I mean, it's just insane. It's larger than Fortune 10 compa”

“No way. It's out of the question. I really believe in what we're doing, and we just want to keep doing it. And once again, we started Spotify... I had money to begin with. For me, money wasn't the driving force. The driving force was to see if it was possible to change the world so that people could make more good music.”

“I feel like, there are 500 million people all over the world who listen to music online. It could get a lot bigger—that's what you're saying. Yes, it could get much, much bigger.”

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