{"id":84096,"date":"2025-11-27T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:44:16","slug":"nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic founders are taking bigger swings, and it\u2019s paying off | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, raising \u20ac1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region\u2019s tech scene. Today, the <!--more--> Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable \u2014 which hit $200M in revenue just 12 months after launching. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s social safety net gives founders room to take real swings without putting their personal lives on the line, and they&#8217;re accelerating faster than Silicon Valley as a result. <\/p>\n<p>Today on TechCrunch&#8217;s 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. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}