90 Seconds With Marc Dillon…
Just a very ‘short and sweet’ interview we conducted to get a few ideas from new CEO Marc Dillon.
Hi Marc – congratulations on your new position as CEO for Jolla!
Thank you, it is a privilege to serve such a great crew.
As a co-founder and COO for Jolla, how do you feel your expertise as CEO will help propel the company onto the next phase ie. product delivery ?
This is a very natural move – the product delivery approaches, and I have been in charge of the whole product development right from the start.
We are all getting very excited about the November 21st/22nd Sailfish launch as I’m sure you are – can you give Jolla fans any ideas on what to expect on the day ?
The company is now focusing its efforts on the UI and SDK for the Nov 21-12 Slush event.
After the Sailfish announcement (21st Nov), when can we expect a device announcement to follow ? Do you have a rough ETA yet for device availability ?
We are now busily planning the upcoming event and will share the news at the event.
Finally, can you sum up what it feels like to be working at Jolla ?
Jolla is an open and fast paced working environment, filled with the brightest and most enthusiastic people I have ever known. Every day I find myself repeating “I love my job.”
Thanks so much for your time!
Thank you as well, and warm regards from cooler places.
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There was a pretty good article on Jolla in the Finnish business magazine Talouselämä. Nothing really new there thouhg. The picture of Marc was also a lot more rock’n’roll than the one in LinkedIn ;)
I’ll see if I get my hands on a print someday soon so that I could translate it.
Hey Jiipee that sounds really interesting thanks for the heads up. :-)
This article has the news bits from the bigger article. The printed versions was a story on a certain trip to China. I dont think that this stuff has been discussed in the blogosphere at all:
http://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/jolla+aikoo+helsingin+porssin+kasvulistalle++paljastaa+rahoitussuunnitelmansa/a2150870
In short, Jolla is considering to be listed in NasdaqOMX Helsinki on the First North ie lightweight list. They say that they’ve had preliminary discussion with FInnish institutional investors already. a 15 percent stake will be available for new investors.
“If it looks like, that the company will sell a million phones, the value of the company is measured in some hundreds millions of Euro”, “80% of the company’s value is in Sailfish OS”, says the Director of the Board, Saarnio.
They are also considering the Honk Kong GEM stock exchange later on.
The current funding is about 10 million of which is gathered from private investors and the FInnish Tekes, a funding program of the Finnish government. (In other words, at least Jolla themselves do not have the 200 million for Sailfish. I hope it is more concrete than that they would like to have 200 million for Sailfish alliance).
Thanks Jiippee for the information! :-)