At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?