On top of that, the agenda also had us going to Epicenter Stockholm, one of the most innovative hubs maybe in the world. Epicenter has the unique advantage of hosting not only large blue-chip companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, but also many start-ups choose to have their offices there. They also strive to focus on a few key areas at a time, in a sort of vertical attack of a problem. What ends up happening is an immense networking of ideas and connections; and I can assure you, THAT HAPPENS.

After a journey there, we met for dinner with some of the brilliant minds behind it all: Hannes Sjöbald, Linus Kaasik, Malin Nyström, as well as a brilliant mind of ours: Martin Czerba. It was a wonderful evening, and the conversations varied from e-commerce to the metaverse to implantable chips and biohacking to synthetic data to God, philosophy, religion, and politics. This type of energy only seemed to build rather than diffuse over the next days.

Eric McDermott

I spent the next 3 days working from Epicenter, met and had great conversations with Patrick Mesterton, the CEO, and wrapped up the film with him and Marcus in the morning. We kept the pace and feel of a new startup during that time, bouncing from meeting to meeting, event to event, always with exciting ideas and new angles to go along with the progress made in the times in between. I’m really looking forward to growing some of the relationships I began to build there, and I am truly grateful for the opportunity to make these connections! #driveyourlife

What a life.

Eric McDermott