Food delivery apps now seem ubiquitous, but Matias Palm-Jensen was already delivering lobster on-demand in the late 90s. His campaign for Swedish Post – which used a hack to give the appearance of personalized ads aimed at influential Swedes – was successful despite the rudimentary state of the web at the time. His agency developed campaigns that pushed at the edges of the internet, and people noticed. The young Matias was very far from being the Swedish archetype, the engineer: he read and drew. Even today, if he wants to express something complex, he will draw it. But it was law and business that he studied at Uppsala University and Stockholm School of Economics, getting a degree in both. He went into government service; and became an expert in contracts before following his nose and straying off into creative consultancy. That knowledge of contracts was to stand him in good stead. Spiff had become a hot property, and he sold it. Then there was the day when the other owners wanted to rename the agency to make it more stock-market friendly – to “Technetologies”. Matias deliberated, and then gave them the name Drax, the evil business empire in Goldfinger. They simply thought it was a nice-sounding name, so on to the stock
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