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The Tim Ferriss Show

#484: Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify — Habits, Systems and Mental Models for Top Performance

The Tim Ferriss Show

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4.617.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the board of directors of Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with 320m users, including 144m subscribers, across 92 markets.

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Literati, L-I-T-E-R-A-T-I. I absolutely love what Literati is doing,

0:07.2

and I've been waiting for someone to really pull it off. So, finally, right here in my hometown

0:12.0

of Austin, but available nationwide, Literati. Let me back up for a second, though. If there's one

0:16.9

thing I think we're all craving after this completely insane captain and sano year, it's an uplifting

0:24.0

holiday season. We want the celebrations, the community, and the bonding conversations that will

0:28.8

give us some hope and inspiration going into 2021. That's where Literati can really help. Literati

0:35.2

is a subscription book club that sends a beautiful book to your door each month, hand-picked by

0:40.3

world-renowned authors and leaders. Literati has book clubs created by fascinating luminaries

0:45.6

of all different types, including the unbreakable Malala Yusufsai, Baskabalai Khan Stefan Curry,

0:52.0

entrepreneurial legend Richard Branson, and famed author and New York staff writer Susan Orling.

0:57.3

There are many, many different folks to choose from. And the focusing function here, the filtering

1:03.6

function is what's important, because with more than a million new books released every year,

1:08.7

finding the right needle in the haystack, the best signal amidst the noise can be really hard,

1:13.2

can be super daunting. And Literati takes care of it for you. Every month, you get one paperback

1:18.8

or hard-carre book that's specific to your luminaries club, like Malala's Club Fearless,

1:23.4

or Stefan Curry's Club Underrated. These are life-changing books personally picked by

1:28.4

awe-inspiring people. There's a personal forward from your luminary in each month's book,

1:33.3

and you're also able to use the Literati app to discuss what you read with people who are reading

1:37.7

the same book, as well as the luminaries slash curators themselves, so they do engage. The

1:43.1

Literati app gives you exclusive access to discussions led by Malala, Stefan Curry, which

1:47.1

had Branson, Susan Orling and others. You won't get insight or access like this anywhere else,

1:51.8

and the way they put it together is really beautiful. I have seen a couple of different packages

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