Building Billion Dollar European Companies

Hear the learnings and observations from Magnus, Co-founder of iZettle and Måns, CEO and Chairman of Qliktech, on what it takes to build companies of such stature in terms of talent management, managing competitive market dynamics, fundraising and exit management. Joining Magnus and Måns on stage, Laurel Bowden, a leading European investor who has backed multiple billion dollar European companies (Hybris, Just Eat, iZettle and Celonis) shares her perspective on what she looks for when investing and how the best investors work with entrepreneurs to create such companies. The discussion will be hosted by Beezer Clarkson who’s Partner at Sapphire Ventures. -- In 2018, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 3,100 startups, 1,800 investors and 650 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to celebrate on Dec 3-5, 2018 with hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.