Douglas Roos. Photo: Oskar Kullander
When Douglas Roos was 23 years old , he set up a life goal – to become financially independent.
– It gives freedom and security. I come from a rather messy background and realized early on that I had to fix the steak itself, he says in an interview with Breakits podcast.
But when Douglas Roos, 38 year old, along with his co-founder, sold the Nordic part of the gaming company Ladbrokes for over half a billion crowns so, he still did not slow the pace down.
Instead sketched Douglas Roos directly submit a new business plan and started a new entrepreneurial projects.
– It was actually a pretty strange behavior from my side. When I’m on the way to achieving this goal I wanted to achieve so long and worked so hard, I have my head full of starting a new company. Entrepreneurs can not take it easy. We have all some kind of diagnosis, says Douglas Roos.
The company he started, News 24 group which today has annual sales of almost SEK 200 million and will make a profit of SEK 7 million this year. But the trip until a positive result has been both long and bumpy, says Douglas Roos in the podcast interview.
– We have become total kasaflödesneurotiker. It has been super tough years. We have guaranteed the slimmest cost side of the media industry, said Douglas Roos.
He describes the News 24 Group, where in addition to the news site also among other things, includes e-sports section Fragbite and ad sales company Netric, as a kind of incubator for new media products.
– We are an entrepreneurial workshop in the media. We test, test, test. It does not work so we spend and test something new, says Douglas Roos.
The speed he believes is missing in the big media houses and take the Bonnier Group as an example.
– If Bonnier to do something, it’s like “20 Point of Contacts” before something happens. Then they have already lost the chance, says Douglas Roos in the podcast interview.
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