The epic documentary about Jan Stenbeck - Media mogul & Billionaire Jan Hugo Stenbeck, born November 14, 1942 at Östermalm in Stockholm, died August 19, 2002 in Paris, France (of a heart attack), was a Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier, from 1977 principal owner and leading force in Investment AB Kinnevik. Stenbeck was one of the late 20th century's most successful entrepreneurs in Sweden. He lived during his upbringing and youth at Villagatan 13 in Stockholm, but since the 1970s had his main residence in the United States. Jan Stenbeck was the youngest son of the business lawyer Hugo Stenbeck (1890–1977) and his wife Märtha, née Odelfelt (1906–1992). After matriculation at Östra Real and a law degree at Uppsala University, Stenbeck also took an MBA at Harvard Business School in the USA in 1970. He was employed at the investment bank Morgan Stanley & Co Inc. 1970-1976 and then his career in business took off in earnest with the formation of the mobile phone company Millicom After a bitter succession battle with his sisters Margaretha af Ugglas and Elisabeth Silfverstolpe (1935-1985), Jan Stenbeck took over Investment AB Kinnevik and Invik after his father in 1983 and single-handedly managed the group of companies from the paper and steel industry to a media and technology company. He had an ability to early discover new business opportunities that were created through technological and economic changes in the environment. Comvik (later Comviq), Metro, Radio Rix, Strix Television, Tele2, TV3, TV-Shop, TV 1000, Viasat and ZTV are therefore some of the businesses that Jan Stenbeck built up. Stenbeck also contributed to making Sweden a prominent mobile phone country. He was given the same role that Henrik Tore Cedergren had had a hundred years earlier, namely to realize the possibilities of the new technology before most people and to create business activities that enabled the rapid spread of telephony. Before the mid-1980s, even the central players in the telecom industry, neither in Sweden nor in other countries, believed that the development in mobile telephony would be nearly as fast as it did. Jan Stenbeck fought hard for the right to operate a privately owned mobile system on the same terms as the state-owned Televerket (later Telia). The first important decision was taken by the government in 1981 when Comvik received permission to automatically connect its calls to the fixed telecommunications network. Both Televerket and Ericsson, who had a close collaboration, were opposed to Stenbeck getting this permission. Comvik launched new ideas to get more phones sold and get them widely used. Among other things, in 1993 the company began paying compensation to resellers who sold subscriptions, which led to large discounts on mobile phones. In 1997, the prepaid cash card was also launched. During his lifetime, he established five listed companies: Tele2, MTG, Millicom, Metro and Transcom. On the trading day after his death, all prices fell sharply Companies that are part of the current group of companies include MTG, which runs media companies in the Nordics and the Baltics under brands such as Sonet Film, Viasat, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter, TV3, TV6, TV8, ZTV, Viasat Sport and TV 1000, the telecom operator Tele2, which also has the Comviq brand, Metro International which publishes free newspapers in both Europe, Asia and America, and Transcom, which offers customer service and credit management services to hundreds of national and international customers worldwide. In the sphere there are also some different elements, for example the consulting company PIR - Procure It Right, which was founded by Stenbeck in 2001 after he experienced in connection with large investment projects that Kinnevik had difficulties in getting hold of consultants with the right skills for procurements of this type.