Merete Hverven

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Orbit - An Hg software leadership podcast · The Scandinavian Question: Merete Hverven of Visma considers how the Nordics became a tech powerhouse · 9 Jul 2021 podcast

And uh and that starts at a very early uh point in time as a child, but also when you start studying, it is promoted to be entrepreneurs.

You definitely see that.

There are

The local government, they really help startups, so they fund startups.

And uh and in addition to that, the public sector is also known for its strength and role in in helping both startups but also the universities.

So if you look at the um the overall educational system, both in in Norway but also without a doubt in the whole of Nordics and especially I would say Finland, we are ranked to be the top ten universities.

Uh within the space.

So thinking differently, thinking out of the box, wanting to change the world and purposeful.

In addition to actually quite high salaries, so the the the minimum salary in in Norway and the Nordics is a lot higher than an example if you look to the states, which has also made us for a long time having to work.

on efficiency, productivity, uh, and and that has also led to the tech development that we do see in uh in the Nordics.

So I think that would sort of sort of sum it up from my point of view, being the large trends that you do see in the Nordics.

I completely agree.

Just looking at the tax uh system, I I get it all in my mailbox and I basically just have to check it out because the government has has done it all.

And I I don't remember the last time I was running around with money in my purse.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, ha happy to.

Well, I I studied uh I have two master degrees, one uh majoring in finance and the other in um uh international management.

I also took a year degree in psychology.

So I think uh from a very early stage I found two things really interesting.

One was numbers and how to create value.

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