Q 01/05

In which country was Spotify founded in April 2006?

A) Denmark

B) Sweden

C) Finland

D) Norway

Answer · why

B) Sweden

It started in Stockholm, and its founders later threatened to move thousands of jobs abroad unless the government fixed housing, education and stock-o...

Q 02/05

Who co-founded Spotify with Martin Lorentzon?

A) Markus Persson

B) Sebastian Siemiatkowski

C) Niklas Zennström

D) Daniel Ek

Answer · why

D) Daniel Ek

He had been CTO of the browser game Stardoll and briefly ran the μTorrent client before Spotify. He remains the company's chief executive.

Q 03/05

According to co-founder Ek, the name 'Spotify' came about how?

A) A branding agency sold it to them

B) A random-word generator produced it

C) It was Ek's childhood nickname

D) Lorentzon shouted something and Ek misheard it

Answer · why

D) Lorentzon shouted something and Ek misheard it

Only afterwards did they rationalise it as a blend of 'spot' and 'identify'. Ek's very first pitch to Lorentzon was not even about music but about ad-...

Q 04/05

Which shut-down file-sharing service gave Ek the idea for Spotify around 2002?

A) Grokster

B) The Pirate Bay

C) LimeWire

D) Napster

Answer · why

D) Napster

Ek said you could never legislate piracy away, so the only fix was a service that was better than piracy and still paid the industry. Kazaa's rise at ...

Q 05/05

Before Spotify, Ek briefly served as CEO of which BitTorrent client?

A) μTorrent

B) Transmission

C) BitComet

D) Vuze

Answer · why

A) μTorrent

He worked with its creator Ludvig Strigeus until the client was sold to BitTorrent in December 2006. Strigeus then became a key Spotify engineer.