Bootstrapping your way to success

Talks with Petri by Petri Kajander

Feb 15, 202101:08:05Business

Heikki Väänänen, the co-founder of HappyOrNot, talks about his entrepreneurial journey from bootstrapping to raising over 40m EUR funding and scaling the company to +200 employees, and stepping down from the CEO role aft...

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