Authenticity trumps ego; and other business tips from Swedish entrepreneur Lars Björk (Qlik)

In a guest post (the second of three), Accel Partners' Sonali De Rycker puts the spotlight on 'the Nordic way' of building global tech companies, through interviews.
Authenticity trumps ego; and other business tips from Swedish entrepreneur Lars Björk (Qlik)

Editor's note: Accel Partners' Sonali De Rycker is publishing a series of blog posts on her Medium account this week to highlight the 'Nordic way' of building scale-ups. We liked it, so we're republishing the interviews on tech.eu.

Second up: Qlik founder Lars Björk (also check out the first guest contribution, featuring Supercell founder Ilkka Paananen).

Brave, bold, or even brash – founders need to be pretty fearless, but the line between audacity and arrogance is a thin one. We think there’s another way to do things, and we’ve actually seen it play out time and time again in the Nordics. The region is the source of some of the best and biggest tech businesses in Europe – its share of multi-billion-dollar exits is the highest in the world, relative to GDP.

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