Most Replayed Moment: The One Habit Behind Every Breakthrough Idea - Spotify Founder

Uh Welcome to another moment's episode. In this clip, Daniel X shares some invaluable business wisdom and reminds us that you have to find out what the real problem is before you try to innovate your way out of it. When Spotify took on Apple, they didn't just copy what was already out there. They interrogated what was actually broken in the user experience and built a fundamentally better way. Our sponsors T Mobile are fixing business internet in a similar way. Internet outages are so common annoyingly, um, and many businesses like mine have to rely on a patchwork of internet providers, backup partners, and coverage. Work around, Team Mobile saw an opportunity and built superb broadband. It pair 5G with Starlink satellites to give you virtually unbreakable internet across every US zip code. Here's Daniel and what it takes to innovate like this. When I heard the Spotify story, I

I really wanted to meet you because I consider myself to be ambitious, but there are some challenges that I would just view as impossible. And at the time when You consider how the music industry w was. And it's run by these big record labels predominantly and they own the music.

To be a Young kid from Sweden. And believe that you could change that. For me is a special type of delusion. Like it's like it's just an impossible task. It's one I just would have thought, okay, some things are the way they are, they're immovable objects. That is one of them. Yeah.

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