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Founding Partner & CEO @wearebou. Ex-President @SlushHQ. Retweets: economics, mind-boggling stats, creative work. Rap, standup comedy & 18 holes.

Helsinki & London
Joined October 2013
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Anthropic have just buried OpenAI and ChatGPT with this ad lmfao There’s no coming back from that
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Victory for Valimaki 🇫🇮 🏆 Sami Valimaki becomes the first player from Finland to win on the PGA TOUR!
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nobody will tell you if your exec-to-engineer ratio has reached a critical limit, but there will be signs
physically at work. mentally somewhere else.
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10 images that blew my mind this year: xitter.cf/waitbutwhy/status/1820…
1881 map showing how long it takes to travel from London to other parts of the world. Think how big the world felt—only 140 years ago—when it took a month and a half to travel from London to Beijing.
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Ten years ago Dave Trott drew a triangle on a flipchart and said “every ad needs three things”. - Impact: “You've got to get noticed” - Communication: “You've got to tell me what” - Persuasion: “You've got to tell me why” Most ads just do the “communication” part. - “We're a brand agency” - “No s***. I just googled that” Look what happens when you do all three. Jesse from Bou tells me it's their best performing ad.
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Finland now just trolling all other democracies.
Replying to @dszacawa
What a picture !!! Joint press conference after the second round of the 🇫🇮presidential elections. Finns know how important it is to avoid generating divisions/polarisation in society. This is very important in today's times. @minna_alander I've always wondered: How do you do it?
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Me: Can you draw a very normal image? ChatGPT: Here is a very normal image depicting a tranquil suburban street scene during the daytime. Me: Not bad, but can you go more normal than that? (cont.)
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Hogwarts 1996 rave.
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Brand refresh & new website for a virtual reality pioneer – you see, @ZoanVR was already shaping the metaverse space when the rest of us were busy updating MySpace: zoan.com
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Three (stripes) is a crowd, but a great one when it means launching slap-up products with @SpinnovaPlc and @adidas:
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Buzzing to be @bestfiends with the US-based brand team of @seriouslyhq, the chart-topping game company, and their 100M+ players:
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Mix lifestyle, tech and business. Stir and shake until smoooth. That’s how you get one of the most-highly valued private fintechs globally. We’ve been Klarna’s spicy side dish in all things PR and communications since 2021: bou.co/cases/klarna
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We (quantum) leapt at the chance to create a new brand for QDI, a Netherlands-based quantum tech company. They are the first in the world to bring quantum dots to medical imaging – and it looks like this: qdisystems.com
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Finland’s @SlushHQ alumni rocks! – at Helsinki, Finland
What are you doing THERE @jessepyy? We thought these listings were mostly for famous designers: forbes.com/30-under-30/2022/…
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Way to go @JessePyy ! 👏👏👏
What are you doing THERE @jessepyy? We thought these listings were mostly for famous designers: forbes.com/30-under-30/2022/…
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“It’s no secret that advertisements for mobile games have gotten pretty crazy, but none have gone as far as @Mergemansion.” Not that it’s a competition. youtube.com/watch?v=Ay94IkcV…
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When a car brand is born at the intersection of superb design, cutting-edge technology and pioneering sustainability, count us in:
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Truly inspiring! Way to go @aesalmi and the team👏 P.s. That basketball court - damn 🔥
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Alexander Pihlainen retweeted
Dr Dre is the most believable doctor we’ve seen on national TV in two years.
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