About the authors:
David Frykman is the CEO and owner of Fred Ventures, a private investment company. Previously, he was the CEO and main shareholder of Gymgrossisten (Nasdaq: GYM) and before that a Senior Vice President at Swedbank Markets Corporate Finance. David has also worked with venture capital at Novare Kapital and Spray Investment. In his different roles as owner, board member and CEO, David has conducted a large number of mergers and acquisitions, fund raisings and divestitures. David holds an MSc in economics and finance from Stockholm School of Economics and the Asian Institute of Management as well as a BSc in psychology from Stockholm University.
Jakob Tolleryd is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and investor behind a number of companies in the IT/Internet industry. Among them, Compricer; a price comparison site for services, Easyart; the leading European e-commerce company for art prints and Klikki; one of the leading online marketing consultants in Scandinavia. He is also the founder and former CEO of Carambole, a pan-European web service company and a founder of intellectual property consulting company Cogent IPC. Jakob is a regular lecturer and speaker regarding entrepreneurship, growth companies and corporate valuations. Jakob holds an MSc in economics and finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada.
Jakob Tolleryd and David Frykman are also the authors of Valuation of Growth Companies: methods and models for valuation of growth companies, written for The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.