#45 Peter Vesterbacka | From Fantastic Education to the Best Entrepreneurship Enabler on the Planet
Summer Special - Pori Power Podcast 3/3
Peter Vesterbacka is THE Mighty Eagle of the Angry Birds company Rovio who started his incredible entrepreneurship journey from beautiful Pori and the West Coast of Finland through THE original Silicon Valley tech startup, HP.
From meeting with Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard and following how Silicon Valley was born to creating the HP Bazaar during the dotcom boom to help startups work with the rapidly evolving tech corporation, Peter created one event that made everything since then history.
As organizer and jury member of a game-making competition, he attracted the winning contribution of three young students from Aalto University in Finland, ending up mentoring them towards creating a company with a resilience to develop everything necessary to achieve their 52nd game: Angry Birds.
Peter jumped aboard to set and surpass the worlds’ largest goal of 100 million downloads of a mobile game (beating TETRIS!) as THE MIGHTY EAGLY, creating the largest growing consumer brand ever in the process, while with a few friends also founding SLUSH - "the best startup event in the world".
Peter now focuses on developing the Finest Bay Area and promoting the Finest Future opportunity for all, in an attempt to attract up to 30 000 of Finland's need of young talent, presently at a screaming 150 000 people needed in our "Japan of Europe".
Please enjoy the fascinating interview about all this and more with the one and only, Peter Vesterbacka.