# Ingvar Kamprad
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Feodor ingvar kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] (listen); 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014.
== Early life ==
Kamprad was born in Pjätteryd (now part of Älmhult Municipality), Kronobergs län, in Småland, Sweden, to Feodor Kamprad (1893–1984) and Berta née Nilsson (1903–1956).
Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA: Frugal, Focused, Flawed and Fascinating
I know what you’re thinking- the Swedish guy who built IKEA- kind of boring - right. But as regular listeners will know by now, I love business, not just the scandals or the high tension battles, but I love finding out how these huge businesses were built, because I know behind every big business i…
Reinventing HR for the Age of Disruption
In this episode of The Developmental, I’m in conversation with one of the wisest, most conscious HR leaders I know: Fleur Carter.
Fleur has spent over twenty years inside one of the world’s largest and most innovative retail organisations, experimenting with what leadership development could beco…
Ingvar Kamprad
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15. From Kamprad values to Nordic Infrastructure, with the CEO of IMAS
How do Ingvar Kamprad's ideas still shape the way a business invests in infrastructure?
In the latest episode, Henrik Lundin, CEO of Imas Foundation, part of the IKEA ecosystem and an investor in infrastructure, shares his perspective.
The conversation explores how Imas allocates long-term capi…
How can you tell if you’re stingy?
If there’s one trait nobody wants to claim, it’s stinginess. But being stingy isn’t about how much money you have. Take Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA—despite his fortune, he lived modestly and even shopped at flea markets. For him, frugality was a habit, not an obsession. But when caution wit…
The Boy Who Sold Matches: The Relentless Rise of Ingvar Kamprad Season 2 "Empire Builders"
A boy walks a frozen dirt road in rural Sweden with boxes of matches in his coat pocket. He buys them cheap in bulk in Stockholm and sells them one at a time to his neighbors for a few coins. The matches are beside the point. What he is really doing on those doorsteps is teaching himself how to tak…
#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull and The Testament of a Furniture Dealer by Ingvar Kamprad. ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform…
#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)
What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull. ---- [0:01] He aims to give his company eternal life [3:45] Early life and entrepreneurship [8:00] The beginning of IKEA [11:40] Learning entrepreneurship by imitating [16:30] IKEA almost dies…
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