This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on October 5th, 2025. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. 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, […]
This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on January 22nd, 2023. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. He created the teen app that launched and sold within a hundred days. The former Meta employee has now done what CEO Mark Zuckerberg cannot — for the second time. There are around 1.8 million apps in Apple’s App Store. Of those, only 37 reached […]
This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on November 2nd, 2022. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. For years, Swedish gaming company King has dominated the charts with Candy Crush Saga. A young Turkish studio is now looking increasingly like a genuine challenger. The mobile gaming market is made up of countless micro-genres where developers compete to be the best. In what […]
This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on October 23rd, 2022. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. The PayPal of crypto — that is what Moonpay is trying to become. Whether they succeed or fail will say a great deal about how the wider crypto market develops. Crypto company Moonpay made a splashy entrance into the startup world when it raised one […]
This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on October 23rd, 2022. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. What happens when venture capital dries up for software companies? A new industry of alternative financing emerges. Ark Kapital is one of them. It might seem like a return to an older era. How did companies get funded before venture capitalists started investing our pension […]
This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on September 19th, 2022. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. When Instabox and Budbee merge, a new delivery giant is born. Behind the merger sits a bigger trend: venture capital owners think it is time for the companies to get big — so they can become profitable. This summer the American magazine The Atlantic ran […]
This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on June 24th, 2022. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. In a matter of months, Sweden went from one of the world’s hottest countries for startups to dark headlines about layoffs and cutbacks. A deeper look shows that what has crashed, above all, is a particular way of building companies. “AI will affect us all. […]
The political cliché in Silicon Valley is that everyone is a libertarian (and that they want to be seen as a contrarian). The first part is in fact a myth, as disproven by this Stanford study. Actually most people here are some form of Democrat. But a Quartz article stated that this political leaning came with two big exceptions: There were two key areas where the entrepreneurs’ views diverged from Democrats, hewing much more closely to […]
After a lot of consideration, I have decided to step down as CEO of Toca Boca. I told the team this morning. It has been seven years since I co-founded the company together with Emil Ovemar. And to be perfectly honest, I need a bit of a break to recharge and figure out what I should be doing next. My own family has also recently expanded so I look forward to spending more time with […]
A first rant on why financial forecasting simply isn’t good enough. Hopefully I can explore some possible options further ahead. False certainty
