Magnus Lindkvist is a futurologist, author, and international speaker. He has been awarded as speaker of the year in Sweden, is a brilliant storyteller, and probably has the best radio voice ever heard on the show. Enjoy!
Pontus Frithiof är en av Sveriges främsta restaurangentreprenörer och gästar idag The Walter Show för att prata om hur vi kan rädda restaurangbranschen ur Corona-krisen. Det här är ett specialavsnitt på Svenska.
Michael "Mafiaboy" Calce is one of the most famous hackers of all time. In 2000, he caused an estimated 1.2 Billion USD worth of damage in a large DDoS-attack against Yahoo! , Fifa.com , Amazon.com , Dell, Inc. , E*TRADE , eBay , and CNN . When the FBI finally caught up with Michael they were stunned to realize that he was only fifteen years old at the time. In this season finale of The Walter Show season 1, we talk about how hacking has gone from basically being youngster pranks to becoming par...
Mehdi Younes used to run much of the Helsinki nightlife and is now building the platform Sumpli to provide shortcuts to simple jobs.
The competition is creeping up in Tesla’s rear view mirror as Audi and Mercedes are both launching their electric cars. And soon, Swedish performance electric car brand Polestar will be hitting the streets as well. I went down to Gothenburg to meet with Polestar COO Jonathan Goodman to chat about what’s to come.
An old friend comes over to the studio for a chat about marketing, life, and creativity. Hanna Lundgren is the VP of global marketing for Volvo's next generation car brand Lynk & Co and an overall awesome person. Don't miss this.
What if the way to a better welfare society is not more resources, but using the ones we already have more efficiently? I went to Oslo to meet with an entrepreneur who is working on a digital platform to supercharge efficiency and move our quality of life to the next level. It's a fascinating tale that starts in a family tragedy and ends in refreshing optimism about the future. Do not miss this short 25 minute conversation with the smart, wise, and huge-hearted Fredrik Gulowsen.
For this week’s episode I went to Helsinki to meet up with the CEO of Arctic Startup, a startup-focused media and events company focused backed by entrepreneurial heavyweights like Gary Vaynerchuk. We talk about finding one’s purpose, what it takes to become a good entrepreneur and the importance of showing genuine interest in other people – or as this free spirited, Burning Man-loving Start Up-activist would put it himself: Instead of just pitching, try asking some questions. Get ready to be in...
Morten Lund has founded or co-invested in over a hundred tech startups. After selling his digital agency in 1999 a couple of ex clients asked him for help with their new startup against a share in the company. That company turned out to be Skype. Morten’s career skyrocketed, but one bad decision would put an abrupt end to the success streak. In 2009, after having gone all in on a leveraged investment in Nyhetsavisen, a Danish free nation-wide newspaper that ended up crashing, Morten was dragged ...
Swedish healthcare is heading into trouble. Fast. As the demand for care skyrockets, training enough doctors and nurses to keep up with the demand will be impossible. Pushing innovation to make better use of existing resources will be absolutely necessary and Martin Lindman, the co-founder and CEO of Doktor.se, is working on just that. His company is digitizing Swedish care and has quickly become the second largest actor in this space, catching up on the number one spot currently held by the com...
With 40-50 Billion plays per month, Epidemic Sound has created a monster of a parallel music industry where the rules are different. Not only are they solving a huge challenge for modern content creators wanting to utilize music in their productions, they also both pay music creators cash up front for their music and share revenue of music streamed via platforms like Spotify 50/50 with them. That is a game-changer. In this second part of a two-part conversation with CEO and co-founder Oscar "Pig...
With 40-50 Billion plays per month, Epidemic Sound has created a monster of a parallel music industry where the rules are different. Not only are they solving a huge challenge for modern content creators wanting to utilize music in their productions, they also both pay music creators cash up front for their music and share revenue of music streamed via platforms like Spotify 50/50 with them. That is a game-changer. In this first part of a two-part conversation with CEO and co-founder Oscar "Pigg...
Welcome to The Walter Show. This is not going to be yet another interview podcast with me asking questions and getting answers. Rather, I have real conversations with some of the most interesting people in the Nordic countries (and some others) over a glass of wine.
