In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.