Erik joined Spotify around 2008–2009 after school and spent seven years there, primarily building its music recommendation system from scratch.

“I, I joined after school in two thousand eight, two thousand nine maybe, uh, and spent seven years at Spotify and, and most of that time was building basically from scratch a music recommendation system and built up a small team and we launched a bunch of features like Related Artists and Discover Weekly and, and a bunch of other stuff.”