# Henrik Lie-Nielsen --- _Managing Partner — Bergen / Oslo_ --- Bergen-based serial entrepreneur. Founded my first tech company in 1995 — at **eighteen**, before "tech company" was a category in Norway. The name was Bergen Nettverkssenter; it eventually became Reaktor. The next twenty-seven years went to building, advising, investing, and getting it wrong on the way to getting it right. Reaktor I co-founded with Roger and Geir. We built it for fifteen years — systems for Frank Mohn, Vesta Finans, Skandiabanken, and the long tail of Nordic firms doing serious things on the internet before "internet business" was a phrase. We sold to Knowit in 2010. I stayed five more years to scale the Norwegian arm from 200 to 700 people, then helped knit Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Helsinki into what became Knowit Experience. December 2015 I walked. I grew up in Åsane, north of Bergen, packing boxes in my parents' toy-shop warehouse. That's where I learned the difference between cost and price — and that the job doesn't do itself. Along the way I also co-founded Bookkeeper in 2011, an accounting firm that grew to 170 MNOK in revenue and later merged with ECIT and listed publicly. **After Knowit I wanted to work for me again.** Amp Eleven was the answer. Roger, Geir and I put equal money into a new investment vehicle — same operating partners as Reaktor, same skin in the game, same way of working. **Thirty-plus years in, the only thing that's changed is what we're building.** At Amp I lead our office and sit inside four portfolio companies on a weekly cadence. I'm not afraid of voicing my opinion in a room where everyone else seems to agree on the opposite. --- > I'd rather *be wrong fast* than be right slow. > > — Personal operating principle --- ## Currently inside - [Stacc](/companies/stacc.md) — Board chair - [Estatelab](/companies/estatelab.md) — Board chair - [Born Digital](/companies/born-digital.md) — Board chair - [Kravia](/companies/kravia.md) — Board chair --- ## Articles - [Why we don't believe in passive capital.](/amplified/why-we-dont-believe-in-passive-capital.md) — Static --- ## Contact - Email: henrik.lie-nielsen@amp11.no - Phone: +47 924 04 152 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrikln/