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# Spotify CEO’s first videogame predicted his future as an entrepreneur.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/spotify-ceos-first-videogame-predicted-his-future-as-an/
- Published: 2012-01-27T16:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:27:12.000Z
- Description: Forbes has a wonderful profile of Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek. Aside from outlining Spotify’s rise to greatness and more than 2.5 million members, the piece outlines a telling tidbit from Ek’s adolescence: At 14 Ek latched onto the late-1990s dot-com mania, making commercial websites in his school’s com
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Forbes has a wonderful [profile](http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2012/01/04/spotifys-daniel-ek-the-most-important-man-in-music/print/?ref=killscreen.com) of Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek. Aside from outlining Spotify’s rise to greatness and more than 2.5 million members, the piece outlines a telling tidbit from Ek’s adolescence:

> At 14 Ek latched onto the late-1990s dot-com mania, making commercial websites in his school’s computer lab. The going rate then for a commercial home page was $50,000, but Ek charged $5,000 and made it up in volume: He recruited his teenage friends, training the math whizzes in HTML and the artists in Photoshop.  
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> **Soon he was netting $15,000 a month and buying every videogame out there (one favorite: a business game called Capitalism).**

*Capitalism* is a business sim game that’s like *Sim City* meets *Wall Street*. No wonder Ek glommed onto it.

*\-Jamin Warren*

\[via [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2012/01/04/spotifys-daniel-ek-the-most-important-man-in-music/print/?ref=killscreen.com)\]