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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by JoachimS on Saturday February 15, 2020 @03:45PM (#22337853)
Skype, Minecraft, Bambora, Spotify, DICE, Fingerint Cards, Zenuity, Recorded Future, Spotfire, SoundCloud, KRY, Voi. Just to name a few.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:03PM (#22337946)
Skype ist Estonian, no?
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by varjag on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:08PM (#22337990)
Estonia is where the work was outsourced to initially.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by jogundas on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:24PM (#22338095)
Wiki says "Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.[26] The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The first public beta version was released on 29 August 2003."
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by seppin on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:35PM (#22338508)
Most of those are no where near billion dollar companies, and aren't based in Sweden either.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by JoachimS on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:22AM (#22356222)
All of them was or are based in Sweden. After being bought by other companies some of them are no longer based in Sweden
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by seppin on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:34PM (#22359478)
Soundcloud is based in Berlin and hasn't ever produced a profit, much less had a 1b evaluation.

And I love Soundcloud, but what are you talking about?

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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by strictfp on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:35PM (#22338513)
King, Starbreeze, Paradox, Avalanche
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by mrkeen on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:26PM (#22338103)
Klarna
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by JoachimS on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:56PM (#22338282)
Yes, good one. Yubico is another HN folks should recognize. And then there are tons of game studios doing AAA games. Numerous network equipment vendors. And of course Erlang.
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