

Carl Sandén
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Today I got a full page in @dagensnyheter culture section. A columnist calls me "a Swedish Elon Musk from Wish." I'll take it. One factual claim deserves a response. Klenell calls Swedish tech "air business" affecting "a few thousand Swedish jobs." Stockholm has the second highest number of unicorn companies per capita in the world, after Silicon Valley. Hundreds of thousands of Swedes work in tech. Ericsson, SAAB, MySQL. Spotify, Klarna, King, iZettle, Mojang, Truecaller, Sinch, Epidemic Sound. Not air businesses. They're why Sweden can afford its welfare state. Then: I'm doing this to avoid paying tax. As I've written before. I grew up in northern Sweden. Nurse mom and teacher dad. My grandparents worked hard to survive and build something. My parents worked hard to give me and my siblings a great life. I'm grateful for that every day. I have more money than I ever imagined growing up. My fiancée and I live simply. Tax is not the issue. I want Sweden to be the best country in the world to build in. I want the next generation to have the same shot we had. And I don't want us to repeat the mistake of ignoring problems for twenty years and then attacking the person who names them. Klenell has no data, no analysis, just labels. Labels are easier than arguments. Sweden deserves the arguments.













