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January 20, 2016 |
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Usually a 9-figure exit takes more than a year to complete but when Blackberry was behind schedule on it’s tablet launch, they saw Hampus Jakobsson’s business as a saviour. This led Blackberry to a $150M acquisition in less than six weeks.
Jakobsson’s company was irresistible to Blackberry because they were one of the world’s leading experts in mobile application design. Jakobsson had chosen to specialize instead of chasing revenue as a generic technology services company.
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Hampus is the CEO of Brisk, which finds the fastest paths to sales for companies like Evernote, Hootsuite and Zendesk. In 2002, he co-founded pioneering mobile UI firm The Astonishing Tribe, which was acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150 million. Hampus is also an angel investor in over 40 startups.
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