May 27, 2020

Hjalmar Gislason CEO of Grid, ex-VP of Product of Qlik on: Selling his Company to Qlik; 3 Experiments to do Before Starting Your Company; Why Iceland

Hjalmar Gislason CEO of Grid, ex-VP of Product of Qlik on: Selling his Company to Qlik; 3 Experiments to do Before Starting Your Company; Why Iceland

Hjalmar Gislason is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of startup experience. His latest startup, Grid, is re-imagining how companies communicate complicated spreadsheet data and models. In our conversation we talked about everything from how he

[1.11] -  How I became a serial entrepreneur.

[5.0] - Entrepreneurial nature of Icelandic people

[5.54] - Why did you move from Boston to Iceland for starting your latest venture

[7.52] - Story of Data Market (data-as-a-service): from a startup in Iceland to IPO in the US

[15:02] - what stage of the company was Data Market in when they moved to the US and why Boston

[18:40] - How did you get acquired by Qlik

[20:09] - What we didn't do right (looking back at the Data Market story

[20:56] - Advice for startups on thinking about commercialization early

[22:33] - Backstory on the inspiration for starting Grid

[25.36] - 3 experiments Hjalmar did before he started Grid

[31:19] - What is Grid?

[35:12] - How to take a product to market

[37.24] - How to determine price points


Companies mentioned:

Grid

Qlik

 

Books mentioned:

Oh, the places you you'll go by Dr Seuss

History of Everything by Bill Bryce

Thievery Corporation