{"id":35476,"date":"2025-11-27T00:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=35476"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:31:50","slug":"nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=35476","title":{"rendered":"Nordic founders are taking bigger swings, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0paying off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years ago, raising \u20ac1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region\u2019s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable \u2014\u00a0which hit $200 million in revenue\u00a0just 12 months after launching.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Green-Lieber, founder of AI-powered customer intelligence platform Propane, has had a front-row seat to that shift over the last 15 years. His take? The region\u2019s social safety net gives founders room to take real swings without putting their personal lives on the line, and they\u2019re accelerating faster than Silicon Valley as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis caught up with Green-Lieber to talk about the Nordic startup ecosystem, from its collaborative culture to its deep tech future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Overcast,\u00a0Spotify\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\">X<\/a> and Threads, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, raising \u20ac1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region\u2019s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable \u2014\u00a0which hit $200 million in revenue\u00a0just 12 months after launching.\u00a0 Dennis Green-Lieber, founder of AI-powered customer intelligence platform Propane, has had a front-row seat to that shift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[19979,2176,2601,7344,18130],"class_list":{"0":"post-35476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-anditspaying","9":"tag-bigger","10":"tag-founders","11":"tag-nordic","12":"tag-swings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}