Jostein Svendsen

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Successful serial entrepreneur in digital media, ecommerce and online financial services

Technology / Software / Internet

Jostein is a highly regarded serial entrepreneur in Europe and North America, having founded and grown several successful companies in digital media, digital financial services and digital commerce. In 1994 and 1995 he founded two of Norway’s leading multimedia and Internet companies, both of which went on to become successful publicly traded issuers in Sweden. One of them grew to become one of the worlds largest internet development agencies, with 2000 employees worldwide. After two years in Silicon Valley, Jostein moved to London in 1998 to establish Sharepeople, one of the world’s first multi-market online stockbrokers. With investment from Goldman Sachs, Soros, GE Capital and other