Sampo Leaders Forum asked me to talk about persistence, agility and sustainability with a couple startup examples, and to suggest how a small country like Estonia can compete on the global stage.

The video just went up.

There’s something about grass at Esto conferences, even on the table here. When I spoke in a black box theater in Tallinn with Niklas Zennström from Skype, the stage was covered with a similar thick grass (photo).

The photo above is from the conference, and the panel features (from left to right): Juhan Parts former Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Communications; Jaan Männik; Chairman of Council at Estonian Central Bank; Aivar Rehe; CEO of Danske Bank Estonia and moderator Raivo Vare; Estonian Development Fund.

5 responses to “Speaking in Estonia”

  1. Grass is green on this side of the fence:D great hummingbird speed again – and great talk:) I know it is hard to be always asked to slow down, at least for me…

  2. I tend to speak quickly when it is unrehearsed. Must be the years of debate back in school.

  3. speaking quickly is fine!
    it’s the mark of good synapses when a fully formed sentence rolls out right after another.

  4. and a fun quote from Steve Blank in The Atlantic today:

    "think about this. The four most interesting projects in the last five years are Tesla, SpaceX, Google Driving, and Google Goggles. That is one individual, Elon Musk, and one company, Google, doing all four things that are truly Silicon Valley-class disruptive."

  5. Cheers for you and Musk…though I am not sure that we are dancing on SV grave:) SV keeps redifying itself as a phenomenon, actually global phenomenon…

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