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How Women, Booze, And Money Made Spotify’s CEO ‘Completely Depressed’

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Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek.

Numerous studies have shown that money alone can’t make you happy, and there’s no better proof than Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek.

According to a recent story in The New Yorker, Ek decided to retire in 2006 after selling his online advertising company, Advertigo, for about $1.25 million. He was just 23 years old.

As many young men his age might have done given the same privilege, Ek bought himself a Ferrari and hung out in Stockholm nightclubs, where, The New Yorker reports, he got his friends expensive tables and wooed lots of attractive women with fancy champagne.

But a year of this lavish lifestyle wound up making Ek “completely depressed.” He tells The New Yorker that many of the women he spent time with were not very nice and his friends were only using him for his money.

Here’s how Ek describes his realization that being rich wouldn’t necessarily make him happy:

“They were people who were there for the good times, but if it ever turned ugly they’d leave me in a heartbeat. I had always wanted to belong and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead I had no idea how I wanted to live my life.”

He decided to move to a cabin near the Stockholm suburb of Ragsved, where his parents lived, to think about what he wanted to do with his life. There, he had conversations with the Swedish businessman Martin Lorentzon about creating a product that would allow people to have seamless access to all of the world’s music.

So far, things seem to be going pretty well.

The post How Women, Booze, And Money Made Spotify’s CEO ‘Completely Depressed’ appeared first on Business Insider.


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