Daniel Ek

🚨 Generative AI just went from being a “tool” to being a teammate. ChatGPT → Veo3 → Nano Banana → now Sora 2. ChatGPT showed us the spark. Veo3 pushed video quality to cinematic levels. Nano Banana made image gen ridiculously good. Now Sora 2 is here and it’s not just a “tool.” It’s a creative partner. We’re moving past the stage where AI is just automating tasks. The new wave is about co-creation: ideation, iteration, and scaling at speeds humans alone can’t match. At Atria, we see this every day. - Campaigns that used to take weeks → done in hours. - Ad concepts that used to need 5 designers → now flow from one marketer with the right prompts. - Testing that used to drain budgets → now fueled by AI-driven creative sprints. The exciting part? This isn’t replacing creativity. It’s amplifying it. The best founders, marketers, and creators aren’t asking “Will AI replace us?” They’re asking: “How do I collaborate with AI to do what wasn’t possible before?”

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Norway’s $1.8T sovereign wealth fund is saving 213,000 hours every year with AI. How? They tapped into their enterprise data on Snowflake, integrated Anthropic’s Claude, and made AI proficiency non-negotiable—backed by real training, enablement, and leadership conviction. This is what enterprise AI looks like in action. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gtFrcScv

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🚀 Big news for Icelandic innovation: Iceland's first HealthTech accelerator has just launched: KLAK - Health 💗 I’m proud of LIFA Ventures ' support of this initiative, alongside other great Icelandic partners, to help lay the foundation for a stronger HealthTech ecosystem. Iceland has already produced incredible MedTech and Life Science success stories, from Embla Medical (Össur) to Nox Medical to Kerecis 🐟. These prove that world-class innovation can and does grow from our small island. But we need more. More founders supported from day one. More investors and mentors need to step in early. More infrastructure to ensure that our next generation of startups doesn’t just leave for bigger markets, but builds global impact from here. KLAK Health is a big first step in that direction, and it won’t be the last. Iceland has the talent, creativity, and ambition. Now we are finally focusing more on the sector that can change lives everywhere. 💡 To all the future founders out there: the ecosystem is ready to back you. Let’s make Iceland a place where MedTech and HealthTech startups can thrive. Great work KLAK - Icelandic Startups ! #HealthTech #MedTech #Startups #Iceland #Innovation #medicaldevices #LIFAVC #KLAK

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Spotify is shuffling its leadership playlist. Founder Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO of the music streaming giant after 19 years. Instead, he will become executive chair of the company. Alex Norstrom and Gustav Söderström will step up to fill his position, as co-CEOs – a leadership duo replacing the solo artist. Ek has said the change “simply matches titles to how we already operate”. It’s never easy for the founder to relinquish the CEO title, even if Ek says he will remain “deeply involved”, working on long-term strategy. On the one hand, Ek must be tired. Over the course of nearly two decades he has fought to build his global, billion-dollar business. He had to do it in the face of stiff competition from Apple. It was believed it had a near-monopoly on music streaming through iTunes. He waged a long campaign to challenge that assumption. It paid huge dividends. The final test of a great founder and leader, in many ways, is to choose his or her successor. Ben Francis MBE hired his replacement as CEO at Gymshark in 2015 after 3 years. I waited at Homeserve for 8 years before replacing myself as UK CEO. My success at Homeserve came from hiring great CEOs for each of our 10 countries and a great CEO for them to work for, when I ended up with too many direct reports. Founders are great at creating businesses, copying and pivoting until they get the right model and start growing. (Exactly what Ek did. Music streaming platforms were not a completely original idea. But he managed to make a standout product and executed it brilliantly.) My advice in these succession situations, when the founder steps away, is to hire a proven CEO with the right cultural fit to work with the founder to achieve exponential growth with fewer mistakes. It looks like Ek has built the right leadership playlist to do this. And he’s been CEO at the company he created for nearly two decades – few pop stars can sustain a career that long!

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Talking to Lovable founder Anton Osika on stage at Nordic Tech Week earlier today, we spoke about how Stockholm tech founders are well-known for giving back to the startup ecosystem, with capital and time. Osika told me that he was quite busy building Lovable and couldn't set aside too much time to invest in other founders. However, he and his cofounder Fabian Hedin have pledged 50% of future earnings to philanthropy. More here: https://lnkd.in/dwe7XdMZ

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