Conversation

Daniel Ek about uTorrent:

"And he’s a legendary engineer and I knew about him from engineering circles, ... , and I was like, “I have to meet this person.” And he had started this thing, ... , it was uTorrent and it was growing very massively. We were actually trying to recruit him to come to Spotify. ... So we persuaded him to sell uTorrent to us instead. And the whole idea from the beginning was actually to fold it because we didn’t really care about it."

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/spotify/