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Could you lose €30 million and still joke about getting your dick caught in the zipper?

This guy can.

Morten Lund is an entrepreneur from Denmark. In a nutshell, he is a venture capitalist and had his hand in many techonogical startups, most notably Skype. He was recently declared a bankrupt after losing a big ass amount of money in a newspaper venture.

Watch the video. It’s really inspiring stuff.

Host: “How much did you lose?”

Lund: “Well with my paper project I lost like €30 million…”

Host: ” €30 million…”

Lund: “…and it was all in. So they’re gonna come and pick up my house.”

Host: “Really?”

Lund: “Yeah.”

Host: “That’s pretty bad…”

Lund: “I was happy before, so I’ll probably become happy again.”

(…)

Host: “We have to congratulate Morten on something. In Europe it’s really non-cultural to talk about failure….you hide it… and you’re coming up here on stage in front of 1000+ people to explain how you lost €30 million.”

Lund: “Yeah… but I also once had my dick in the zipper? (chuckles) I mean, we all fail all the time, you know…”

Epic respect.

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Blog plug

Lund maintains a blog here: http://lundxy.com/

Thanks to Kevin for mailing me the video. He blogs here: http://hamletshero.blogspot.com