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Kahoot! Share is spawning new record listings, providing owners with adventurous paper earnings.
The online newspaper wrote in December last year that superinvestor Jan Haudemann-Andersen has earned more than 900 million in Kahoot! Compartir. The listed games and learning company could be the 61-year-old man’s best investment ever.
We are talking about gains on paper, the shares have not been sold, but since December the gain has been much more adventurous. The action of Kahoot! It’s had a completely insane price spike in 2019 and 2020 (see chart below), although it calmed down a bit towards the end of this week.
STOCK ROCKET: Kahoot’s stock is up nearly 400 percent from last year’s listing, but the rise has slowed a bit now towards the end.
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Very satisfied
– I am very happy, it is on the right track, says Jan Haudemann-Andersen to Nettavisen in a short comment. Otherwise, refer to the board and management for further feedback on Kahoot.
Haudemann-Andersen owns 13 percent of Kahoot! At the close of business on Friday, its 52.13 million shares were worth NOK 2.36 billion. At the IPO on October 10 last year, Haudemann-Andersen owned shares in Kahoot! For a total of NOK 695 million.
According to Finansavisen, it then had NOK 550 million in unrealized profit, indicating an original cost price of around NOK 145 million. Even after the small price drop in recent days, the paper’s profit is NOK 2.2 billion.
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Danish greetings
Kahoot shareholders can expect a further sharp increase on Wednesday, after Kahoot! acquires the Danish company Actimo. The Danes offer a platform that enables organizations to build their corporate culture more efficiently through better communication, training, and interaction with their employees.
The acquisition comes as part of Kahoot’s strategy to invest more in the corporate market with digital tools that strengthen the internal corporate culture. The stock market appreciates that Kahoot! pays around NOK 200 million for Actimo in the form of cash and settlement in Kahoot! shares, including a performance-based item.
For the past twelve months, Kahoot! more than 1 billion participants in more than 200 countries, who have played more than 200 million kahoots.
Clear increase
Kapital magazine will soon publish its latest ranking of the richest people in Norway. Last year, the magazine estimated Haudemann-Andersen’s net worth at NOK 2.2 billion. That fortune is definitely higher now, the billionaire has other investments than Kahoot !, but none comes close to being as profitable.
Jan Haudemann-Andersen has a master’s degree in economics from Agder District University College and BI Norwegian School of Management, and has the Naval Academy at Oscarsborg. He began his career as an investor as a stock speculator with funds loaned by his medical brother Stein.
In 1995, Haudemann-Andersen became the largest shareholder in the then Tandberg Data. It also invested heavily in Ask (later Proxima), a separate projector company from Tandberg Data.
Tabbe
In 2016, he sold himself out of the hydrogen company Nel in 2016, in which he had bought 50 million shares the year before. In retrospect, it has proven to be a huge mistake.
In fact, Nel’s recovery is stronger than Kahoot’s, and Nel’s 50 million shares are today worth close to NOK 900 million.
– I have no comment on that, says Haudemann-Andersen when asked if he regrets that sale today.
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Diversity
But Haudemann-Andersen was also involved in the establishment of the controversial online newspaper Resett.no along with, among others, billionaire Øystein Stray Spetalen. Through the investment firm Datum Invest, the investor owned 23 percent of the shares.
– Diversity. That is the most important. Diversity in the media is important, very important. In Reset you get a different angle and different data than you get elsewhere. If you want to form a true picture of reality, you have to interact with various media, the investor told Filter news on why it was bought.
– I may have some actions on Resett today. I also have some stock in Klassekampen and Schibsted, and then I helped save Morgenbladet. Diversity is important, the investor repeats to Nettavisen.
I bought a huge property
It was recently announced that the investor raised NOK 113 million for Trygve Bjerke’s giant property Østre Holmen Gård, according to Finansavisen. It was well below the estimated price, which was 170-175 million.
Haudemann-Andersen has been married three times, including the violinist Marte Krogh, 17. The two were married in 2014, but divorced two years later.
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