Andreas Ehn

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Partner at Approach

Technology / Software / Internet

I'm passionate about building companies and Internet services. As Spotify's first employee and CTO I was responsible for the product and platform architecture as well as hiring a world-class engineering team, of which many have gone on to become successful entrepreneurs on their own. After Spotify I co-founded Wrapp, a mobile online-to-offline customer acquisition service for bricks-and-mortar retailers that raised money from prominent investors including Atomico and Greylock (with Niklas Zennström and Reid Hoffman joining the board), went head-to-head against a Rocket Internet clone and at one point set up offices in 18 countries from Taiwan to Brazil. Now I'm learning about the world...