Jan Fredrik Karlsen resigned – VG

Jan Fredrik Karlsen (42) built his entire fortune and career at his company Playroom. Now he has resigned from the job in the company he started 14 years ago.

It writes Dagens Næringsliv Friday.

– Playroom has been an incredibly nice entrepreneurial story and I remember the first speech my boss PolyGram continued: Employ people who are better than you. It has always done, and now the whole Playroom better than Jamie and me. To see the change and that the company has become bigger than us have been rewarding, says Karlsen said.

Jens mentioned in Karlsen’s quote is his event-maker partner Jens Nesse.

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entrepreneurs and SONG BIRD: It was Kurt Nilsen (right) as very first ensured that it began drain million into manager Jan Fredrik Karlsen company Playroom. Now Karlsen said his job in the company he thoroughly in 2002.

Photo: Jørgen Braastad VG

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Karlsen worked as promotion employee record company PolyGram (now Universal Music) then he during by: Larm in Kristiansand in 2002 discovered the qualities at a namsosing named Askil Holm. He stopped sporenstreks in PolyGram and created Playroom for building Holms career as his manager.

A year later – in 2003 – was Jan Fredrik Karlsen judge and jury during the first “Idol” -season Kurt Nilsen won . Nilsen was also incorporated into the stable to Karlsen.

In 2005, he expanded artist stables with another ‘Idol’ -deltaker, Alejandro Fuentes, thereby laying the foundation for one of the 2000s biggest successes, the so-called “Hallelujah “-kvartetten with Fuentes, Nilsen and Holm and Espen Lind.

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the success led to much money into the Jan Fredrik Karlsen’s Playroom, and in 2012 the company has become so attractive that television production group Nice la somewhere between 60 and 80 million on the table to buy the company.

From a very modest earnings Askil Holm in 2002 – at a time when Holm had not even released a disc – had Jan Fredrik Karlsen built brick by brick and increased sales in the company’s full 109 million.

Thus, Playroom – Jens Nesse and Jan Fredrik Karlsen each owned 38 percent of – sold at a gain for PlayRoom duo of around 35 million.

Jan Fredrik Karlsen has until now served as creative director of Playroom while Jens Nesse has been CEO. What the future brings, Karlsen silent on opposite Dagens Næringsliv:

– I do not know quite yet. Now we will first make sure that future Playroom being hedged. So there are several scenarios that might be the end of this, he said.