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Huberman Lab

DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

Huberman Lab

Scicomm Media

Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.826.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

I’m excited to share episode one of a new podcast that I’ve helped create and produce. This new podcast is called David Senra, and it’s hosted by David Senra. For those of you not familiar with David Senra, he is an expert in all things related to greatness. He studies greatness and understands it, mostly in the domain of business but also among creatives, athletes and other world-class performers. This first episode of the podcast is with Daniel Ek, the co-founder and CEO of Spotify. It's an absolutely spectacular conversation that I'm certain you'll enjoy. With episode one of David Senra now available, please be sure to subscribe wherever you’re listening so you don't miss future episodes. You can also subscribe to the podcast on the platforms below. Spotify: https://spti.fi/TVrr557 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3WaK1S6 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@davidsenra X: https://x.com/davidsenra Chapters (0:00) Introduction from Dr. Andrew Huberman (1:13) Reflecting on a Life-Changing Conversation (2:30) Optimizing for Impact Over Happiness (5:21) The Journey of Self-Motivation (10:11) The Importance of Trust and Relationships (15:37) The Role of Criticism and Self-Reflection (17:37) The Evolution of an Entrepreneur (23:27) Building a Company True to Yourself (34:56) The Power of Trust in Business (42:25) Intellectual Humility and Learning from Others (42:49) Shadowing Leaders for Growth (45:01) Learning from Mark Zuckerberg (48:15) Balancing Personal Taste and Metrics in Product Decisions (53:35) The Evolution of Leadership at Spotify (59:13) Building a Company That Outlasts the Founder (1:15:25) Managing Energy Over Time (1:25:31) The Never-Ending Game of Life (1:25:54) Lessons from Henry Ford (1:27:08) The Value of Solving Problems (1:31:42) The Importance of Quality (1:37:20) The Power of Focus and Patience (1:54:32) Balancing Work and Life (2:00:25) The Journey of Self-Discovery (2:08:43) Final Reflections and Gratitude Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

0:06.1

Today, I'm excited to share the launch of a new podcast that I've helped create and produce.

0:10.4

This new podcast is hosted by David Senra.

0:13.0

For those of you not familiar with David Senra, he is the expert in all things greatness.

0:18.1

He studies greatness and he understands it, mostly in the domain of business,

0:22.4

but also creatives, athletes, and other world class performers.

0:26.4

In this new show, David sits down

0:28.2

with the best of the best business founders

0:30.1

and extreme winners to understand their drive,

0:33.0

their process of creation, how they overcome failures,

0:36.1

their lessons in leadership, and other tools for achieving

0:38.8

success. This first episode of the podcast is with Daniel Eck, the founder of Spotify. It's an

0:44.3

absolutely spectacular conversation that I'm certain you'll enjoy. If you'd like to listen to future

0:48.9

episodes of this new podcast, please be sure to subscribe to it. It's simply called David Senra, and links to it are in the show notes

0:56.0

for this episode. Again, the podcast is called David Senra. Episode two of David Senra will be with the founder

1:02.1

of Dell Technologies, Michael Dell. So again, make sure to subscribe wherever you're listening now.

1:07.8

And now, episode one of David Senra with the founder of Spotify, Daniel Eck.

1:14.9

So I want to consider this conversation, like a continuation of the conversation we had last

1:20.2

year in New York. It was by far the most impactful conversation I had the entire year. It is in

1:26.3

large part the reason we're sitting down and actually recording this conversation. And what I loved was I thought about how the advice you gave and the stories you told really fundamentally changed my approach to my work and then also like my philosophy of how I'm living my life. And because you, it's very rare,

1:45.8

like this year I'm going to hit over 400 biographies read for the podcast, right? And somebody asked me recently, it's like, do you ever uncover new ideas? It's like, no, I feel like I'm telling the same story, the same personality type over and over and over again. And you'll get a new idea or a novel idea, you know, every once in a while, but certainly not all the time.

2:02.0

Yeah.

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