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hagaetc
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@hagaetc
Co-founder & CEO @dune. Down with music/books/crypto/tech/econ/running/outdoors/freestyle skiing/great design in any form factor/coffee/burgundy wine etc.
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened: 1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary 2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns 3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my
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    Alex Svanevik 🐧
    @ASvanevik
    Nov 15, 2024
    Here’s how insane things have gotten in Norway: The Socialist Party has a “wall of shame” in their office with “rich people who have left Norway” - due to the outrageous taxes they’re now being charged. Who do you find on that wall? Startup founders like @hagaetc - who was
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    Replying to @ASvanevik
    Not only all my income, several times more than my income 🙃
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 28, 2024
    Norway Shrugged 🇳🇴🤷 My story recently racked up over 100 million views on this website. As a startup founder in Norway I was facing an unrealized gains tax bill many times higher than my net income. No politician ever told me how I'm supposed to pay the bill, but I got put up
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Jul 4, 2024
    My mental model of the west
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    I’m born and raised in Norway. I think it’s a beautiful country that I would love to live/build in but right now that’s not possible. Sadly Europe as a whole is falling behind due to innovation hostile policies/culture. If you all help calling it out it might improve eventually🙏
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    Okey cool went viral with millions of views on the problems of an unrealized gains wealth tax and still have seen *zero* serious takes on how I should go about actually paying an unrealized tax bill 🤔
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    Replying to @ASvanevik
    Since there’s free healthcare and daycare all your arguments against any part of the system are by default invalid 🤗
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    Replying to @Austen
    *Half* of Norway’s top 400 tax payers have moved to Switzerland in the last 2 years due to the unrealized capital gains tax….
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 16, 2024
    Replying to @SpeakMouthWords
    Independent of their moral qualities they are at least very hard to pay
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 28, 2024
    Replying to @dobssi
    Because you have to move to a country with a wealth tax otherwise you still have to pay it to Norway for 3 years. Switzerland has a wealth tax but a different and more business friendly tax system all over. That’s why everybody’s moving there.
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Mar 30, 2022
    We started from the bottom, and merely 3 years later @DuneAnalytics became a unicorn company at only 16 employees. Think we never struggled? Wasn't hungry, yeah? Here’s the story of our fundraising journey 👇 dune.xyz/blog/started-f…
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Mar 30, 2021
    Probably the most accurate meme I've ever made
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Oct 10, 2025
    Early retirement is the lamest ambition one can have
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    hagaetc
    Dune
    @hagaetc
    Nov 28, 2024
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    Norway Shrugged 🇳🇴🤷
    From paragraph.com
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