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https://www.propellerheads.com/press/28 ... vik-as-ceo
Hah! I'm going to start the completely unfounded rumor that the reason is that you want more time to kick back and finish a polka-album.
Well the first thing is for us to say thanks for bringing Propellerhead to where it is now.
Congratulations on bringing Propellerhead this far.
As long as this doesn't equate to "milking current Reason users without changing the app much to fund other ventures" then I'm happy and keeping my fingers crossed...expansion journey where we reach new target groups while cultivating the core business of high‐quality software applications for music creators...
Instabridge seems like a very open, social type of business, along the lines of Ernst's vision for Allihoopa.
Bad Ernst!
He wants to change stuff"What pros and cons are there to take over after someone who has been sitting as long as the CEO?
“The advantage is that you come in with an outside perspective and with a less emotional luggage if something needs to change. I see it as positive. Then Ernst is a legend in the industry and has lots of contacts that I do not have but since he is still on the board we can benefit from him there. "
He bankrupted his company in mars 2019 (!!!), lets hope he dosent bankrupt Propellerhead..."Niklas Agevik started Instabridge together with Erik Tigerholm 2012. The company's service offered the users free surfing on various wifi networks worldwide. But despite heavy backing, the company landed in a bankruptcy.
"It really wasn't like this we thought it would end. But we became dependent to an owner's contribution we didn't succeed in," said Niklas Agevik to Breakit then."
He wants to produce more products and reach new taget groups.... What products and taget groups could it be?Niklas Agevik does not believe that in his new role as CEO, he will lack life as an entrepreneur.
"This is a very entrepreneurial company and there is a desire to get the entrepreneurial mind even more - to get more products and to reach new target groups - so this feels like a fun challenge," he says."
Yeah but that company has now gone bankrupt. So his company went bankrupt two months ago and now Propellerhead is electing him as its CEO.Kategra wrote: ↑16 May 2019"Early in his career Agevik spent five years at Ericsson. After that he has been part of several fast paced start‐ups. Most recently, he comes from Instabridge, a company he founded and ran for the past seven years. The Instabridge app has 30M users and 30,000 organic daily new users. "
I don't know what he has in common with the the DAW business.. the telecom world is so different..
Wifi sharing service Instabridge, founded in 2012, would launch a pay version and start earning its own money. But after spending 65 million in risk capital, the company has now applied for bankruptcy.
A startup going bankrupt is hardly a pointer to anything. 8 out of 10 startups which are built on seed investments do, if not 19 out of 20.
All of this was foretold in the prophecies.
Bet you a tenner thats how it's going to pan out.diminished wrote: ↑16 May 2019alienate their user base, ignore the products that made them big and focus on mobile for that quick cash -
Well, then at least we get to keep R10.3.. I'll probably leave the PC it's installed on as is and never upgrade anything software or hardware to have it working 4EverJackjackdaw wrote: ↑16 May 2019Bet you a tenner thats how it's going to pan out.diminished wrote: ↑16 May 2019alienate their user base, ignore the products that made them big and focus on mobile for that quick cash -
...sounds innocent, but then I'd feel more assured if the order was different (Reason 1st, new targets 2nd) and if they used some other word instead of "cultivating", which - to me, at least - suggests maintaining, support, conservation; rather than active expansion, development, innovation. I know it's a small thing, but in corporations every word of such a statement is very carefully chosen and shaped, because it'll be analysed and scrutinised by investors.reach new target groups while cultivating the core business of high‐quality software applications for music creators
It may seem sometimes like all we do around here is complain and make feature requests, but let me join the voices saying thanks for leading the team that built what continues to be the most inspiring environment for making music. Cheers!
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