Daniel Ek

“I think the average page load time at that time was like four minutes... So we basically re-architected the website. I hired an entirely new technical team and brought it down to under a second of load time. And obviously the traffic exploded, Sequoia invested.”

“I'm surprised that people haven't talked about sort of the amount of computes. So if you think about it... if I'm using a hundred thousand GPUs for something, that's probably going to be a lot more powerful than if I'm running an open source model on my home PC.”

“we're obviously using a lot of the frontier models, but we have a bunch of fine-tuned models ourselves too. And we tend to do both. And that is actually making us more innovative.”

“how do we pay it forward and kind of almost be like the greatest co-founder you could possibly find? That's the ambition of Prima Materia.”

“It is a reinvented healthcare experience from the ground up, vertically integrated. We do everything from building our own facilities to having our own nurses and doctors on staff to building our own diagnostic equipment and doing everything on our own on the software side.”

“we started the company eight years ago in 2018. And we started it in Sweden in 2023. So it took us five years to develop the product, try it out in Sweden... now we're launching in the US. So it's an exact Spotify playbook again, but this time in healthcare.”

“For Ek and Nilsonne, the larger bet is that healthcare can move from primarily reacting to disease toward measuring more, earlier.. and giving people information they can act on before something feels wrong.”

“I've worked on this launch since joining Neko a year ago. For @HNilsonne, @eldsjal and @shak, it's been 8 years in the making.”

“Neko Health, an eight-year-old Stockholm startup co-founded by Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek that offers full-body preventive health scans [raised $700M Series C].”