Now entrepreneurship here is a great test bed for startups in gaming, fintech, and music streaming because we have a mature consumer market thanks to high broadband penetration and high GDP per capita. Startups can get their services working here and expand to larger markets around the world," he said. The founder of King came out of Spray Networks and Spotify was also founded at that time. That turned out to be very important because "when Ericsson got into trouble, it spit out engineers who had a nice severance package and no hope for a new steady job. We decided that you were not a crook if a startup failed and we gave people a second chance," said Windbladh. But in the 1990s, that began to change as venture capital came here and a lot of people got a taste for entrepreneurship. In an August 16 interview, "The attitude towards entrepreneurship in Sweden has changed dramatically since the 1980s when it was considered bad - it was highly likely that a startup would go bankrupt and not pay its taxes. Hjalmar Windbladh - a serial entrepreneur who in 1999 sold mobile app developer Sendit to Microsoft for $130 million - is Founding Partner of 556 million Euro EQT Ventures and is excited about the future of the city's startup scene - which is due, in part, to a cultural change that took decades.
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At the top of that list is streaming music service, Spotify, valued at $8.5 billion in 2011 - and valued in May 2017 at $13 billion in anticipation of a possible IPO - and online payments service, Klarna, worth $2.5 billion, according to CB Insights.
Indeed, in 2015 investment firm Atomico found that at 6.3, Sweden had the second largest concentration of $1 billion companies per capita, behind Silicon Valley’s 8.1. Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, was also sold to Microsoft - in this case for $2.5 billion in November 2014.
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