Kitchen Table Strategy Sessions

“At home at the kitchen table, we agreed to try to fly significantly higher. I wanted a publicly traded company as a base for an investment operation in industrial companies. My role would be an active owner, not voting with my feet but taking responsibility for governance and control with a strong confidence in my own ability.”

“What I took with me when I left the partnership in 1983 was a rather small property in Frihamnen in Stockholm, Haifa 1, worth around 30 million SEK. There was a film laboratory for Sveriges Television there. It was the foundation of Förvaltnings AB Wasatornet, which from the start had us four as owners with forty-two percent for me, ten percent for Elisabeth, and twenty-four percent each for our two children, Carl and Eric. From the very beginning, we discussed all our business at the kitchen table and always pursued joint decisions. And that's how it still is.”