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Brisk invoicing5/11/2023 We’ll help you out.” And we started talking to them and came into the first meeting and we had built a prototype for them. But this guy was like, “Hey, save my ass.” So we said, “Okay, sure. Mobile phones and touch screens were getting smaller and smaller. Hampus: So he said, “Oh, can you help us build the first products for the mobile phone and get the software for that?” We just said, “No way!” Because we had worked for the gaming start-up before mobile gaming started up and we just felt mobile phones in 2001, that’s never going to come anywhere. We’re building a mobile phone.” And we had actually worked quite a long time in computer arts. Then what happened was that a friend of ours pinged us and said, “Oh, I’m working at Sony, and Sony and Ericsson just merged. We were doing great and invoicing customers, and spent a lot lesser time at the university than we probably should have sometimes. We started this as a hobby project while in university and then started having a lot of fun. Everything was about, essentially, experiences, like video compression technology, arts, special effects for movies. Think about this like, dorm-room, completely random stuff. Hampus: It was something completely crazy. Jeroen: What was the company exactly about? It was about arts? We just said, “Hey, let’s just start this company together,” even though we were doing three completely different things. Another friend was working with special effects for movies, and we were all really close friends. They wanted to start a company around that. We were like, “Whoa, that’s great, but we probably have to start a company to invoice that.” Another two friends were building a consultancy doing image recognition and video stuff. I got back and with one of my friends then, using the inspiration I got from there, we were able to build a big arts installation. I was working at an arts company in London as an intern. When I was young, in university, I started a company with five of my friends, which we literally stumbled into. Normally I ask people to introduce the company or where they are but maybe you can introduce the three of them very quickly, to kind of give us an overview of your journey? Jeroen: You are currently a VC at BlueYard but formerly you were a Founder at The Astonishing Tribe, and then at Brisk.io. Jeroen: Hi Hampus, it’s great to have you on Founder Coffee. We theorize about how the world works, about the two different stages of a startup, the state of venture capital, work-life balance, and why you should not build someone else’s company. He made user interfaces for the big phone manufacturers, sold his company to BlackBerry for $150 million, worked there in mergers and acquisitions, started angel investing (in now 90+ companies), launched a new software startup to get more experience at raising money and is now at the other side of the table, investing in tech startups that are about to change the world. Hampus started with a group of friends in a dorm room and quickly embarked on an epic journey, sailing where the wind would blow. We discuss life, passions, learnings, … in an intimate talk, getting to know the person behind the company.įor this twenty-third episode, I talked to Hampus Jakobsson, co-founder of Brisk.io and The Astonishing Tribe, and now Partner at BlueYard. I’m Jeroen from Salesflare and this is Founder Coffee.Įvery two weeks I have coffee with a different founder. Hampus Jakobsson of Brisk and TAT Founder Coffee episode 023
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