At our speaker series last week, Daniel Ek (Spotify) gave his first address to any university audience. Full details here.

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Magdalen College Auditorium, Wednesday 28th October, 7.30-9.30pm

This week the OE speaker series reaches new heights as we welcome Daniel Ek, the founder of the latest invention to hit the online music scene: Spotify.

Daniel Ek is a 26 year old technologist who started his first company 1997 at the age of 14. Currently he is the CEO and founder of Spotify, a legal music service that helps people discover, browse and play music.

Anybody who’s read the new this year will have seen that Spotify is currently something of a web pin-up… The more business minded amongst you will have noted the inherent difficulties in the business model – will Spotify succeed in its aims of changing the Music Industry and bringing an end to the avalanche of illegal downloads… We hope so!

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November 4, 2008 ~ 5:30-7:00pm, The Corner Club
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