Lesson Learned In Startupland by Mikkel Svane (CEO of Zendesk)

Lesson Learned In Startupland, Mikkel Svane (CEO of Zendesk) at Slush 2014.

Mikkel Svane is the Founder and CEO of Zendesk, a software development company that was valued at $631 million in the IPO in May 2015. Mikkel has served as Chief Executive Officer since August 2007 and as a member of the board of directors since August 2007. He was appointed Chair of the board of directors in January 2014. Prior to founding Zendesk, Mikkel founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Caput A/S, a software company, and served as a technology consultant. He holds an A.P. in marketing management from Arhus Kobmandsskole. Mikkel is the author, along with Carlye Adler, of the book “Startupland” to be published by Jossey-Bass in December 2014.

// Slush 2016 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30th – December 1nd! //

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In 2015, Slush brought together 15.000 attendees, including 1.700 startups, 800 venture capital investors and 630 journalists from exactly 100 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their business to the next level.

Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Although Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become one of the leading events of its kind in the world, the philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.

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