Startup Founding Team and Leadership

Anyone willing to follow in the footsteps of Finland’s best entrepreneurs and founders — let alone the world — has some big shoes to fill.

We bring you Thor Gunnarsson, CEO & Co-founder at Mainframe Industries and Samuli Syvähuoko, Founding Partner at Sisu Game Ventures and Co-founder at Return Entertainment. They will be interviewed by Moaffak Ahmed, Founder of Cooler Future and Partner at Nordic Makers, and share what it’s like to be in their shoes, along with their best practices for putting together your founding team and leading your startup.

Bigger Shoes is an event series that brings the biggest and boldest entrepreneurs in Finland and neighboring countries to you so you can learn from their successes and failures. Get ready for inspiring talks and fireside chats, challenging questions, and tasty bites, and don’t hurry home afterward — if you stick around for some networking, you might just meet your future co-founder.

In need of some ECTS? By attending all nine sessions of Bigger Shoes, you can earn one credit. More information at avp.aalto.fi/bigger-shoes.

Meet the speakers

Thor Gunnarsson

CEO & Co-founder at Mainframe Industries

Samuli Syvähuoko

Founding Partner at Sisu Game Ventures and Co-founder at Return Entertainment

Moaffak Ahmed

Founder of Cooler Future and Partner at Nordic Makers