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I waited up to now for the US to be awake, or this would’ve been unfair. Coming back from Apple Expo or should I say iPod Expo. Paradoxically enough, I had a nice chat at the Microsoft booth…There you go with this week-end “Guess who I am?” game, a bit trickier than the two last editions:
“I’m from Eastern Europe, and in my late 20s. Despite my young age, I’m the Head of Operations of a Europe-born start-up company that has revolutionized my industry so much that we’ve been bought out by a California-based big player late last year. We’ve been so disruptive, allowing for business opportunities in devices but smashing established business models, that multinationals are shaking when hearing the name of my 11-million-customer-strong company (I’m no owner or founder though). I started my career as a programmer, dropping corporate communication studies after one year at University because I had founded my own time-demanding software business. Jeremy has written some posts about my company, and I was granted a business portrait in the British newspaper The Economist in the August 19th 2006 issue. Who am I?”
Update 6:56pm: congratulations to Ole Begemann for recognizing Sten Tamkivi behind the preceding description. Ole is German currently travelling throughout South America. He takes wonderful pictures and I recommend that you take a look at the website he devised himself clicking on this link.
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Sten Tamkivi of Skype?
Congratulations Ole! Well done. What made you find so easily? My treat for a beer when you come to Paris.
Jeremy,
I had actually never heard of Sten before. But the “Europe-born start-up company that has revolutionized my industry so much that we’ve been bought out by a California-based big player late last year” could only mean Skype. And then the answer is just one Google away…
Glad that you like my pictures. I am actually back in Berlin now even though the site looks as if I were still traveling. Have to update it again.
Who are you?
- Steven Burda, MBA