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I am really pleased to welcome a new friend, Daniel Eck, from Spotify.

He's the CEO, but also an old friend and a former student who's now a partner at Kleiner Perkins.

He's going to do an interview with Daniel today, and we'll learn everything there is to know about this person.

You, we're an MBA here as well as an undergrad and has been a venture capitalist for the last few years.

But how many of you have heard of Spotify?

Okay, how many of you used it?

Yeah, I tend to use it. So I think we know what it's all about, but now we get to learn about this fellow Daniel

who has been doing companies half his life and he's still under 30.

So let's welcome Daniel Chihuah.

All right. Thank you, Tom, and thank you everybody for having us today. It's a real privilege to be here,

as Tom mentioned. I was a student here for many years. And to be here interviewing my friend,

Daniel, the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, is an honor. Daniel is one of those really rare talented entrepreneurs that has a

compelling vision to disrupt an extremely large industry by building just a great product.

And I'll tell you a brief little story that encapsulates that. Daniel and I met at the end of 2010.

We were introduced by my partner, Mary Meeker.

Daniel happened to be in town.

And after a strategy offsite that we had done with our firm,

Mary said, hey, Daniel's here.

You know, we're at a hotel, and he came by,

and we sat for an hour and a half.

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