Whats In The Water

In this episode, we talk to one of the world's premiere experts on influencer marketing, Aron Levin. Aron worked at King and Spotify before co-founding the influencer marketing company Relatable with offices in Stockholm, London, New York, and Los Angeles. This is a scaled down 1-hour version of a 3-hour conversation we had with Aron and we focus on influencer marketing but also cover Aron's super interesting experiences from negotiations with some of the world's richest and most influential people like Mark Zuckerberg, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, and Uber Founder Travis Kalanick. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Jenny Keisu is one of the founders of Summa Equity, a private equity firm that invests in companies in line with the UN's 17 sustainable development goals. In other words, where a good purpose is an integral part of the actual business model, and not just as a CSR-add on that is so prevalent today. We discuss a lot of things, among them the somewhat counter-intuitive insight that not only can you make money while saving the world, but making money can be a means of saving the world in its own right. Tune in to this fascinating episode to find out how.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Konrad Bergström is the founder of Sweden's fastest growing company of all time, Zound Industries, that sold over twenty million Marshall and Urban Ears headphones and speakers over a ten year period. After recently being fired from Zound, Konrad embarked on a new entrepreneurial mission to save the seas with all electric boats with his company X Shore. In this episode, Johan Åberg struggles to keep his co-host Walter Naeslund and Konrad on track throughout the three hour recording as the two long time friends (23 years and counting) head off in different tangents, fueled by half a dozen bottles of natural wine. From this material, one hour of reasonably sane material could be distilled out in editing for your listening pleasure. A different episode for sure, but with tons of wisdom and extremely valuable business advice. You've been warned. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In 2007, Kicki Theander founded the world’s first dinner-kit company Middagsfrid together with her husband Victor. Not only did their company skyrocket, they also had three kids and had moved into a beautiful home outside of Stockholm when Victor suddenly fell ill. It turned out to be bone marrow cancer, and the doctors gave him 6 months to live. In episode 4 of What’s in the Water we meet Kicki Theander to have a conversation about life, loss, and putting your life’s challenges into perspective. This turned into a profound episode that we kept talking about for days after recording it. Listen in and prepare to change your outlook on life and work.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Stefan Ytterborn is the product- and branding genius founder behind the protective gear brand POC and more recently the all electric cross motorcycle Cake. In this long and super-dense episode we talk about building companies, selling companies, product design, branding, PR, and a lot more. If you're anything like us, you may end up listening to this more than once, because there is just so much pure gold in here for every entrepreneur and intrapreneur out there. So get your notepad out and get ready to learn! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Walter Naeslund and Johan Åberg continue their mission to save the world through entrepreneurship. Fear is the number one inhibitor of entrepreneurship but can also be a motivational driver. We invited Sweden's most famous and colorful neuroscientist Katarina Gospic to dig deep into what fear is, how it relates to entrepreneurship, and what we can do to fight our fears and win. We also talk about politics, raising kids, and of course – the meaning of life. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In the world premiere of What's in the Water we meet none other than the father of Candy Crush, Sebastian Knutsson. Candy Crush is the world's most downloaded mobile game with over 3 000 000 000 (!) downloads. We talk about the game, about Sebastian's secrets of business and creativity, and find out how Canadian TV came after him for destroying the sex life of Canadians. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy