Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Childhood :
- Henrik Jönsson was born on February 27, 1975, in Sweden. Although the place of his birth is not clearly known, he was born at a time when everything in Sweden was characterized by scarcity. The country was a concrete-socialist economy, and most sectors of the economy were centrally controlled.
- Today, the importance of easy access to unlimited information is often neglected, but for a person like Jönsson, this is a privilege, because he recalls having seen days when, for every bit of knowledge, books in libraries had to be scrounged.
- As Sweden moved towards becoming a progressive economy, Jönsson realized his ambition to venture into the IT space- a foresight which would soon transform into a major influence in the digital space.
Early Years :
- Before emerging as one of the eminent YouTubers in the digital space and opining on culture and politics, Jönsson started his first company in 1996- an IT-based startup.
- It was a multi-media company, making CD-ROM presentations, around the time when the Internet was spreading its roots globally.
- Post that, he established multiple companies in different parts of Europe- mainly England and Sweden, most popular of which is Hungrig.se- a food delivery service in Lund, a province in Scania, Sweden.
Later Years and Current Status :
As a businessman :
- Following subsequent expansions and foray into different spheres of the IT sector, Jönsson established the Tion Group- a company dealing in packaging, pharmaceuticals, and adhesives. He maintains that his expertise is based mainly in IT and digitalization.
- Jönsson has founded more than fifteen companies by venturing into diverse areas, ranging from visual effects to online food delivery services. Currently, he is the owner of a company called Divine Robot, situated in Malmö, which deals in video game production, simulation and virtual reality applications for the police and military.
As a YouTuber :
- Opportunities in the web space came booming on the onset of the new decade of 2010. With the advent of new technologies, came a new audience, who were eager to explore what better content the Internet had to offer.
- Shrinkage in the global boundaries led to the world citizens coming together, and Jönsson realized that this could be an excellent opportunity which, if exploited properly, could do wonders.
- This paved the way for his parallel journey as a YouTuber- a platform which had already become a must-have application on every device that could access the Internet.
- He began mentoring online lectures on business and digital transformation, commenting on global issues alongside.
- This soon translated to humongous success on the Internet, where he quickly accumulated more than 75,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Achievements :
- Henrik has published two award-winning commercial computer games for Apple devices, one of which hit the Number 3 spot on the US App Store with millions of downloads.
- He is also a published author and lecturer on digital popular culture, entrepreneurship and futurology.
- He was awarded the entrepreneur of the year award within Virtual Reality Concepts for his work on virtualized e-learning.
- He is a recurring columnist at the Svenska Dagbladet, a daily newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden.
There is nothing about his net worth