Magnus Helgesson

The entrepreneur
Sweden’s youngest entrepreneur in 1982, when Magnus was only 12 years old, he started his first business. In 1993, Magnus, Ulf Haggren and Leif Olsson started the first restaurant in what would later become one of Sweden’s largest restaurant chains. Today in 2013, all Harrys have a turnover of over EUR 70 million and employ over 1000 people. But the journey started already in 1982. The business idea in Magnus’ first company consisted of looking for stamps in containers which were then resold. When you rummage in containers all day, you find but one thing and another and one thing that existed very often was coffee grounds. The problem was actually that the coffee grounds often destroyed the letters and stamps, but it soon turned out to be a solution. Magnus offered to buy coffee for the company in exchange for receiving the letters immediately, without a swamp. The idea was spotless and only a short time later, Magnus had bought coffee for EUR 634 and sold stamps for EUR 8640. It was the first deal in Magnus’ career. In Magnus ‘best-selling e-book “The road to the moon – 0 to 700 million” you can read the whole story of Magnus’ journey to today. If you want to hear Magnus talk personally about his inspiring background, views on entrepreneurship and leadership, you can hire him as a lecturer. Both life wisdom and unique ways of thinking as well as entertaining anecdotes are promised! Buy Magnus’ second best-selling e-book and success tool “Success Leaves Track” here.