Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, October 14, 2025 Thousands of billions of dollars went up in smoke when the crypto market shook at the weekend. The affected are complaining of market manipulation — but where is the line when it has become a method rather than a crime? When crypto figure Huang looked at his account over the weekend, nine million dollars had disappeared. It was not a hacker who had been […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, October 9, 2025 With competitors closing in fast, OpenAI is borrowing its new strategy from Steve Jobs. Now apps are coming to the chatbots. Could it be as big a success as the iPhone? The video clip has become legendary. Steve Ballmer, then CEO of Microsoft, is asked what he thinks of Apple’s new product, the iPhone, in 2007. The blunt and self-confident Ballmer laughs — almost […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, October 5, 2025 Vanja Wikström took her trail of followers through life — and led them into her own project World of Alidia. Blaming ignorance and good intentions when many have lost their money sounds, to say the least, naive. It was a strange time on the internet, that spring of 2021. American artist Beeple auctioned off a digital artwork through Christie’s. Final price: over 69 million […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 30, 2025 Spotify stands stronger than ever as Daniel Ek steps down as CEO at the start of next year. After 20 years on the throne, the king of Swedish tech is stepping aside. And the outlines of what lies ahead are already visible. It is a journey without parallel within Swedish tech. And one that stands strong within Swedish entrepreneurship overall. Spotify has transformed an […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 23, 2025 The world’s highest valued listed company — Nvidia — has an unusual problem. Its biggest customers are buying too much. But the company’s solution is making alarm bells ring. When Jensen Huang meets his shareholders, it is hard to imagine anything other than nothing but happy faces. With a stock market performance of over 1,200 percent in the last five years, Nvidia has gone […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 16, 2025 Swedish Sana is being acquired for 10 billion kronor by American Workday. The timing of the deal could prove historically good — is Sana founder Joel Hellermark seeing something no one else sees? The question every board is currently asking its management team is: what is your AI strategy? And when the answer sounds a little too hollow, it is time to open the […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 15, 2025 The AI trend is stronger than ever and is pulling the entire American stock market toward new heights. But more and more signals suggest that the top may be near. “We didn’t see it coming.” The familiar explanation, heard all too often when something unexpected and unwelcome has happened. In reality, it is rarely quite true. There are signs. Perhaps they were not so […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 12, 2025 Grand promises about the future just made Oracle founder Larry Ellison the world’s richest man. But the deal that sent the stock soaring is far from certain. A strange thing happened with cloud company Oracle this week. The figures in the quarterly report were worse than analyst expectations. But the share price did not fall. Instead it surged over 30 percent and made major […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 10, 2025 Klarna opens with a surge on the American stock exchange. Billions in market value are added immediately. But the listing is more of a new start than a finish line. Sweaty palms, elation, nerves. Putting your life’s work on the stock exchange is a big day for an entrepreneur. That is where Klarna and its CEO and co-founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski find themselves now. When […]
Originally published in Svenska Dagbladet by Björn Jeffery, September 2, 2025 Boosted by a buoyant market, it is time for Klarna to list in New York. After a turbulent period for the world, a window has opened that Sebastian Siemiatkowski intends to use. When you’re about to set sail, you do well to check the weather report first. When Klarna formally submitted its IPO application in March this year, the outlook looked stormy. Then the […]
