The Northbound Show

In this episode of The Northbound Show, host Ken Villum Klausen sits down with Sara Wimmercranz — General Partner at BackingMinds, Dragon in Dragons' Den, and co-founder of the XO Foundation — who built one of the region's biggest e-commerce players before crossing to the other side of the table as an investor. Sara has a mission: build Europe the Nordic way, not the American way. She&ap...

In this episode of The Northbound Show, host Ken Villum Klausen sits down with Fredrik Hjelm, co-founder and CEO of Voi — and, as Ken puts it, if not the king of Swedish tech, then at least its crown prince. The two go deep on the question Ken keeps circling back to: why is Sweden exploding right now, and can Stockholm really become Europe's Silicon Valley? Fredrik makes the case that it all...

In this episode of The Northbound Show, host Ken Villum Klausen sits down with Oscar Höglund, co-founder of Epidemic Sound and Sander Janca-Jensen, co-founder of Flatpay. After 18 years building Epidemic Sound into a company that soundtracks the internet, Oscar Höglund made one of the hardest calls a founder can make — stepping back. Sander is in a different chapter entirely, heads down building F...

In the first episode of The Northbound Show, host Ken Villum Klausen sits down with Anko van der Werff, President and CEO of SAS.  Anko shares how he led SAS through one of the most challenging periods in its history, and what it takes to drive bold, strategic transformation in a traditionally conservative industry. His leadership has helped secure SAS’s role in Nordic aviation while shaping a bra...