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Ek started making websites for clients from his home at age 13. He charged the first client $100 and the second $200. Eventually, he started charging $5,000 per website. To help expand the business, Ek recruited students from his class to work on the websites from the school computer lab by bribing them with video games. His earnings eventually reached $50,000 per month. By age 18, he was managing a team of 25. Ek's parents started to notice his earnings once he started bringing home large TVs.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://pando.com/2012/11/08/daniel-eks-impossible-thinking-started-at-age-13-with-a-web-development-mini-empire/ |title=Daniel Ek's "impossible thinking" started at age 13 with a Web development mini-empire |date=9 November 2012 | access-date=2017-12-06}}.</ref>
Ek later served in a senior role at Nordic auction company [[Tradera]] which was acquired by [[eBay]] in 2006. Ek also served as the [[Chief technology officer|CTO]] of the browser-based game and fashion community [[Stardoll]]. Ek later started another company Advertigo, an online advertising company. Advertigo was sold to [[TradeDoubler]] in 2006.<ref name="auto1">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/7259509/Daniel-Ek-profile-Spotify-will-be-worth-tens-of-billions.html |title=Daniel Ek profile: 'Spotify will be worth tens of billions' |date=17 February 2010 | access-date=6 Dec 2017|last1=Neate |first1=Rupert }}.</ref> After selling Advertigo, Ek briefly became the CEO of [[μTorrent]], working with μTorrent founder [[Ludvig Strigeus]]. This ended when μTorrent was sold to [[BitTorrent (company)|BitTorrent]] on December 7, 2006. Strigeus would later join Ek as a Spotify developer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-reminded-of-utorrent-past-after-branding-grooveshark-pirates-141112/|title=Spotify Reminded of uTorrent Past After Branding Grooveshark 'Pirates'|publisher=Torrent Freak|author=Andy|date=12 Nov 2014|access-date=3 Sep 2016}}</ref>
