Talks with Petri

Daniel Lacalle talks about bubbles and central bank traps, practical tips for individuals, why we are not learning from history and what's the role of human ingenuity.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/long-run-is-here/.Guest bioDaniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Life in the Financial Markets (Wiley, 2015), The Energy World Is Flat (Wiley, 2015) and Escape from the Central Bank Trap (Business Expert Press, 2017). He is a professor of Global Economy at IE Business School in Madrid.Ranked as one of the top twenty most influential economists in the world in 2016 and 2017 by Richtopia, he holds the CIIA financial analyst title, with a post-graduate degree in higher business studies and a master’s degree in economic investigation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and Commissioner of the Community of Madrid in London.Lacalle is a regular collaborator with CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC, Hedgeye, Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Mises Institute, and TheEpoch Times as well as an occasional consultant for The World Economic Forum, Focus Economics, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other major news publications around the world.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Per Bylund talks about the role of entrepreneurship in society, what's wrong with economics, why prices are always rising and how to spend a year in Hawaii.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/consumer-is-sovereign/.Guest bioPer Bylund is a Swede in Oklahoma, USA, where he works as assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business. He had careers in politics and as business consultant and systems developer before moving to the USA and starting a career in academia. He has also successfully failed as an entrepreneur no less than four times, experiences that he draws from when teaching students and writing columns for Entrepreneur magazine.He is an author of two books, The Problem of Production: A Theory of the Firm (Routledge, 2016) and The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives (Lexington, 2016), and associate editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. A fellow of the Mises Institute, he is a frequent guest in its Economics for Entrepreneurs podcast. He is also actively discussing matters of the economy, entrepreneurship, and freedom on Twitter; follow him at @PerBylund .--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Tero Mennander talks about missing the perfect exit window and life as a VC in France and the Nordics. He also reveals his connection to Leningrad.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/mixing-startups-and-vc-with-french-seasoning/.Guest bioTero has been General Partner with Ventech since 2016 and brings operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience in innovation. With an office in Helsinki and Paris, he covers Ventech’s investment activities in the Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.During his times as an investor (1998 – 2006) for Sitra and as General Partner with Nordic Venture Partners he led numerous early-stage Nordic investments such as u-Nav Microelectronics (acquired by Atheros), CRF Health (acquired by Vitruvian Partners), Continuent (acquired by WMware), and MAC (acquired by Meconet). He has also held several Investment Committee and Advisory Board positions in European and US VC funds. During his tenure with Nokia (2006 – 2012) he held leadership positions in Corporate Development, Venturing and M&A. Earlier in his career, he worked in business development for Boeing Corp.Most recently Tero founded and was the CEO of PulseOn (2012-2015), a connected wearables company specializing in optical sensors and algorithms.Tero holds a Msc. in Industrial Economics from Université de Genève and an MEB from Solvay Business School, Université libre de Bruxelles. Tero has lived and studied or worked in Belgium, Switzerland, UK, Russia, USA, and Finland.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Tom Mayr talks about audio as the last medium without a big platform, how to approach two-sided markets as a startup and why not all likes are the same.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/context-brings-content-to-audio/.Guest bioTom Mayr is an entrepreneur who has been fascinated by sound all his life. He started with music and later moved on founding companies with his old music band members. Currently, he’s the CEO and co-founder of Voicehub that is disrupting the growing audio market with their unique take on the spoken audio.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Razeen Sally talks about the threat of China, the role of Singapore in the new volatile world, what’s ahead of us in geopolitics and what he discovered in Sri Lanka.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/serendipitous-journey/.Guest bioRazeen Sally is a Sri Lankan-British writer. His new book, a travel memoir, is Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island (Juggernaut). He is a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and previously taught at the London School of Economics.He was chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic-policy think tank in Sri Lanka, and senior adviser to the minister of finance. He has been director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a global-economy think tank in Brussels, and has held visiting research and teaching positions in the USA, France, Australia and Hong Kong. He was also chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Tomi Grönfors talks about challenges in building a consumer brand, how to price your products and wrestle with your personal issues without shame. He also reveals why a road trip may last only a few kilometres with empty bottles.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/branded-water-with-a-square-meter-of-art/Guest bioTomi Grönfors is the CEO and co-founder of Sniffie, a pricing automation growth company. He has founded several companies such as VEEN, a luxury water brand, and a marketing agency Malja BTL. He has also acted as an interim manager for SSH and Unmonday. Tomi is a passionate wrestler in his free time and enjoys family life in Finland.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Venture capitalist Sakari Pihlava talks about the future of the SaaS business model, how to make a career in VC, the dangers of pricing and what to do with YouTube.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/passionate-people-build-products/.Guest bioSakari Pihlava is a General Partner at Vendep Capital that invests in early-stage B2B software companies.Sakari has 20+ years of software business and venture capital experience from startup to IPO in Europe and the East Coast of the United States. He spent 6 years at F-Secure and built a new encryption product line, which grew to €17 million and 42% of total sales at the F-Secure 1999 IPO. Since then he has spent 4.5 years at TVM Capital, a trans-Atlantic venture fund with more than €1 billion under management in Munich and Boston and 3.5 years at Efecte, a leading Nordic IT service management company, before coming to Vendep.Sakari’s background is especially strong in enterprise software having worked during his career with all publicly listed security companies and their Founders in Finland.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Elias Aalto talks about the early days of Wolt, how to win an Apple Design Award and why startups are overhyped as a career path and what not to do when you have an audience of millions of people.See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/check-your-odds/Guest bioElias Aalto is a co-founder and the original product lead of Wolt – one of the fastest growing food delivery companies in Europe. After its inception in 2014, Wolt has raised over 250M€ in funding and serves 22 countries and 80 cities around Europe and Asia. Elias is a generalist switching between coding, design and business. He started developing for iOS from the very launch of App Store becoming the first Apple Design Award winner in the Nordics for his game Wooden Labyrinth 3D. Simultaneously, Elias co-founded Qvik – a digital consultancy – that has organically grown to 10M€ revenue and today employs close to a hundred specialists in design, mobile, cloud and AI.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Stefan Björkman explains the investment climate ahead of us, reveals his management secret, talks about a good company board, and what’s the purpose of glue in business. See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/hai-and-thank-you-says-it-all/.Guest bioAfter 30 years of managing growth companies, international industrials and financial institutions Stefan Björkman heads a cultural endowment since two years. Never really adjusting to being neither an engineer nor an expert of any kind, he is content being an ever-curious generalist. In addition to his day job, Stefan is a board professional and angel investor with experience from over 50 companies.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts)Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Hampus Jakobsson talks about living in the moment, the biggest challenges for humanity, who are the most interesting people and why hearing is important while cooking. See the episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/curious-angel-seeks-happiness-by-learning/.Guest bioHampus Jakobsson is an investor focused on climate. Earlier he was at Blueyard, and before that he co-founded Brisk (folded) and TAT (acquired by Blackberry). He has angel invested in 100+ companies and blogs at http://www.hajak.se.--------------All episode notes and transcripts:https://www.petrikajander.com/talkswithpetri/Subscribe and listen: Apple iTunes (Podcasts), Google Podcasts, Spotify.Follow on Twitter.Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.