Fresh news! This August I’m diving into a new adventure as Chief Product Officer at Airthings. Airthings has been empowering the world to breathe better since 2008 with radon sensors and more recently launching premium air quality sensors for both consumers, professionals and businesses.
I’m so excited about this opportunity to help the world see the invisible. Indoor air quality has significant impact on people’s health, be it pollen, wild fires, pollution, mold or radon. Airthings already has a solid foundation with hundred of thousands of industry-leading sensors sold world wide with powerful apps used to analyse and understand the air around us. Airthings has recently launched the Renew purifier and with that opened up a whole new world of possibilities. With me to Airthings I bring 20 years of experience on building design driven products, leading cross-functional product teams and scaling brand-focused organisations. I look forward to joining the management team with Emma, Audhild, Mirka "Millie", Gudrun, Magnus, Helge, Hanne, Chloe Waller.
Looking back, it’s now more than 7 years since Joar reached out and wanted to democratise investments for everyone in Norway and Kron was born. Together with Håvard we looked for product market fit in an industry known first and foremost for being far too complex and handing out few favors to its customers. The entire team in Kron has had an incredible journey, and what a team we’ve built. Full of learnings, failures and a lot of wins. Autonomous product teams working truly cross-functional with a go-to-market mindset. We have challenged the status quo and altered people’s perception of how easy investments can be done, and what impact it can have on peoples financial life. Today, Kron from Storebrand is the most liked savings service in Norway (EPSI) and we manage the savings, dreams and aspirations of more than 80.000 customers that has more than 18 billion NOK invested . It’s fun to think back to the days when we were scratching our heads trying to find customer #1000, when we today can welcome that many customers in a week!
In 2023 Kron was acquired by Storebrand. Storebrand has done a tremendous effort in onboarding Kron. With Storebrand, Kron can build fantastic value for customers at a much larger scale and create synergies with Storebrand’s existing product offerings. When you find a group of likeminded people at this size a lot of great things can happen. I know for a fact that Kron is in great hands with Jarle, Joar, Håvard and the team.
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1moAMAZING news!!!! So so happy for you Ashley Doss. You'll have to let me know if life brings you to SF through Asana - I literally live right next door to that office!