About Point Nord
Point Nord explores Nordic people, ideas, technology, business and culture through interviews, visits and original stories — bringing Nordic perspectives to a wider world.
Point Nord (北欧派) is an independent, bilingual conversation studio and video podcast based in Helsinki, Finland. It publishes long-form interviews, roundtables and short clips in English and Chinese with founders, executives, investors and researchers, on business, technology and research, with a focus on the Nordics, China and Europe.
The Nordics build world-class technology, companies and research, yet many of these stories rarely travel beyond the region. At the same time, much of today’s conversation about business and technology is fast, loud and second-hand.
We want the opposite: slow enough to get to the point, close enough to the people who actually do the work, and open to listeners in Europe, North America and the rest of the world.
We start from Helsinki and the Nordics, where trust, design and long-term thinking shape how things get built.
We record in Helsinki for listeners everywhere. Every episode page is published in English and Chinese, the two languages our team works in.
Each conversation is built around a single question and told by someone who has lived it.
We choose questions that will still matter next year, not only this week’s headlines.
Two speech bubbles facing each other: a conversation. Point is a point of view and a starting point. Nord is the north we speak from.
How companies are built, sold, financed and led, told by the people doing it.
What new technology changes in practice, and what it leaves untouched.
Where research comes from, and how it finds its way into the world.
We keep exploring new and interesting topics as the world changes.
We leave out party politics, non-public business information and celebrity gossip.
20 to 30 minutes on a single question.
Three voices with different experience. A conversation, not a debate.
A full episode, three key points and short clips from each recording.
Point Nord started from conversations we kept having in our work. We regularly sit down with founders, researchers and operators who give sharp, first-hand answers to hard questions, and most of those conversations end when the meeting does. We wanted to keep them.
Between us we bring experience in branding and storytelling, community building, intellectual property, AI-enabled products, international expansion, market entry, strategy, commercialisation, investment and fundraising, and we choose the questions we would want answered ourselves.
Host
Ashley works with early-stage startups on branding, marketing, storytelling and community management, as well as intellectual property, events, customisation and international expansion. She has a particular interest in AI-enabled products and services. At Point Nord she leads the conversations on brands, research and innovation.
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Sean works with early-stage companies on strategy, commercialisation and market entry, as well as fundraising, investment and management. He is especially interested in how companies enter new markets and build the capital to grow. At Point Nord he leads the conversations on business, markets and capital.
Guests, partners and curious listeners are all welcome.