30/06/2019
Amazing , Stael von Holstein is a well known public speaker and author within the field of entrepreneurship, technology, privacy and digital rights issues and has been perceived as one of the leading Internet visionaries in Europe.
Lars Johan Magnus Staël von Holstein born 5 May 1963 in Halmstad, Sweden is a Swedish entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author who co-founded dot-com companies such as Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt during the early dot-com boom in Sweden. Worked 5 years as the left hand of famous entrepreneur the late Jan Stenbeck from Sweden. Holstein was founder of Icon which had over 3000 employees and offices in 32 countries.
Icon Media Lab CEO (first two years)
LetsBuyIt.com chairman and founder
IQube founder and CEO
MyCube founder, chairman and CEO
Seed investor in: AccedoBroadband, Apotea, BokaDirekt, BlueFish, Diamorph, Elucidon (Silobreaker), EpiSurf, IconMedialab (Sold, Public on NASDAQ & Stockholm stock exchange and eventually bought by Publicis), Invajo, KennethWorks (Sold to Google), Letsbuyit (Sold, Public on NeueMacht), RAP, Result, Reis (sold), TheLocal, Tunigo (sold to Spotify) WeMind, Werlabs IQUBE was recognized as a value creator and major investors included Investor, the Nordic region's largest industrial holding company, as well as Sjätte AP-Fonden, a Swedish pension fund. Staël von Holstein was during this time recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by Chief Executive magazine and elected as one of ten board members on the Swedish Government's Cultural Board.
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