Hello stranger 👋

Welcome to my corner of the internet.

Born and raised in Norrköping, Sweden 🇸🇪 by parents with Greek 🇬🇷, Hungarian 🇭🇺, and German 🇩🇪 roots.

Building things since I was 18. The past dozen years or so have leaned heavily into coaching: I’ve worked with well over a hundred grassroots founders, mostly first-timers, and spent a lot of that time learning how ecosystems actually connect across Europe and Asia (not just on slide decks). That line of work now lives mainly in Edventures, an edtech and future-of-work platform that uses AI to coach founders from 0 to 1. Before that there was a small constellation of startups that mostly taught me what not to do. I’ve herded remote teams across 15+ countries, bootstrapped products, launched, missed, re-launched, and figured out that resilience is my superpower.

Launching Goa Founders House in south Goa 🇮🇳 with partners on the ground: a cross-cultural launchpad where European and Indian founders drop into each other’s markets without doing it from a hotel lobby. Two tracks (market expansion, venture creation), one villa.

Organising founder weeks at sea through Turquoise Summit: small, slow founder meetups on wooden sailboats along the Turkish riviera. Each one gets its own theme and founder mix. Deliberately curated, deliberately small, deliberately allergic to lanyards.

Produced a documentary in 2025 called Vägen Tillbaka (The Road Back), about my hometown hockey club bankrupting itself out of Sweden’s second tier, landing in the fifth, and clawing their way back up. Underdog sports, municipal drama, very cold settings. If you’ve ever shipped an MVP, you’ll recognise the plot.

I’m often taking pictures. Most say they’re good, but still haven’t made any money from it. Verdict’s yours: most of the snapshots land on Instagram.

I hold a BSc in Business Administration and Organisational Management, and soon also a BA in Psychology. One degree explains the business-y stuff. The other explains why I keep using them on humans. In 2022 I packed both into a backpack and flew to India 🇮🇳 to study who actually gets access to entrepreneurship education; the result ended up in my thesis if you enjoy a good read.

That’s the tour. The rest of this site is photographs. Hopefully louder than the words.

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