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Hampus Jakobsson

General Partner and Co-founder, Pale Blue Dot · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded mobile user-interface design company TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), which was acquired by BlackBerry in 2010, and later founded Brisk.io. Today, he is a General Partner at Pale Blue Dot, a seed-stage venture fund investing in climate tech startups.

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2 supported 3 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hampus argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
BlackBerry Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis Was Pushed Into an Innovation Role
“One was Mike was pushed out. He was pushed into an innovation role, and he was a totally amazing person.”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 9:49 How to Sell For $100m+

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Hampus Jakobsson on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Hampus Jakobsson said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
CEOs of 10+ Person Companies Must Stop Signing Every Deal
“The best CEOs of the planet are really thinking about how to make themselves Unemployed for the, I'm like, just unnecessary. Just trying to build the team. And I think that the CEOs who themselves sign every single deal, you know, who themselves come up with a…”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 21:11 How to Sell For $100m+
Assertion Partly supported
TAT Built the Initial Design Team for Google Android
“We actually built the complete design team for Google Android. I worked with Andy Rubin in Mountain View.”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 3:44 How to Sell For $100m+
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
BlackBerry Acquired TAT for $150M at 4x Forward Revenue
“So it was hundred and fifty million dollars. So that was four times our next year revenue.”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 7:56 How to Sell For $100m+
Assertion Supported
BlackBerry Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis Was Pushed Into an Innovation Role
“One was Mike was pushed out. He was pushed into an innovation role, and he was a totally amazing person.”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 9:49 How to Sell For $100m+
Insight
Brisk.io Avoids Professional Services to Prevent Internal Team Misalignment
“I don't want to bring professional services, because that was one of TAT's headache, my former company, because we did professional services, we're not, we were not internally aligned. So I was just telling myself, okay, screw it. I know it's bad. I know cash …”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 16:14 How to Sell For $100m+
Assertion Supported
BlackBerry's $150M Acquisition of TAT Was Paid Entirely in Cash
“Total cash. Actually, it was a bonus on top for, like, staying”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 9:03 How to Sell For $100m+
Assertion Partly supported
TAT Founders Retained 60% Ownership at Their $150M Exit
“We didn't really have much of investors. So the founders owned 60% of the company.”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 9:13 How to Sell For $100m+
Disclosure
Hampus Jakobsson Invested $2.6M Across 45 Startups as an Angel
“What is it? 2.6 million dollars.”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 13:05 How to Sell For $100m+
Assertion Partly supported
Evernote's Global Sales Team Adopted Brisk.io Through Bottom-Up Usage
“Like, Evernote was like that. We signed Evernote. It was one guy who found it in Zurich, who was like, this tool is crazy amazing. He turned around to his sales operation manager who happened to be visiting Zurich, where they have the European office. And she …”
Hampus Jakobsson Jan 21, 2016 ▶ 18:04 How to Sell For $100m+

The other half of the tape: Hampus Jakobsson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 2 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How to Sell For $100m+ Jan 21, 2016 15m
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