Summary
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek sits down with the All-In hosts to discuss life after stepping into the executive chairman role on January 1, and what comes next. The conversation begins with the early Spotify story: launching in 2006 in the shadow of Napster and Kazaa, licensing music from wary record labels, and building a subscription product that now serves over 700 million users and more than 300 million premium subscribers.
The main focus is Ek’s new health startup, Neko, co-founded with Hjalmar. The company offers full-body preventive scans at around $499, combining AI systems that flag possible risk factors with human clinicians and specialists such as dermatologists who review each finding. Ek describes how storing scans over multiple years lets the system track changes, like a growing mole, that even a very good doctor could not recall from one year to the next.
The hosts also press on the economics of healthcare, including misaligned incentives, rising national health spending, and whether regular screening could reduce long-term costs. The interview offers a look at how a veteran consumer-tech founder thinks about AI, early disease detection and the future of care.
📺 Source: All-In Podcast · Published September 28, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
