SVENSKA DAGBLADET / DYNASTIN

The Dynasty
The podcast series “The Dynasty” (Dynastin) gives a closer look at one of Sweden’s most powerful families, the family Stenbeck. “The Dynasty” offers an exclusive insight into the family, behind closed doors. The story has been described as a backward “Succession”, despite Jan’s wish for his children to become hungry businessmen and women, at present none of them run the family company. Why is that? Through portraits of the children of Jan Stenbeck, and interviews with Jan’s advisors, friends, business partners and former directors, a story about death, secret siblings, addiction, and shame unravels.

Background
Jan Stenbeck was one of the founding fathers of the Swedish media infrastructure. After the death of his father and brother, he took over the family-owned investment company Kinnevik and turned it into an empire. Launching Sweden’s first commercial TV-channel (TV3) and commercial telecom company (Comviq), Stenbeck managed his way past the media monopoly and became one of Sweden’s most wealthy people. When Jan Stenbeck unexpectedly died in a heart attack in 2002, his young children had to take command over his empire. At the same time, they learned that they had an unknown half brother.

About SvD / The Dynasty
Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) is one of the biggest morning newspapers in Sweden, with over 800 000 readers every day. The paper has a profile similar to New York Times’ and was founded in 1884. “The Dynasty” podcast is the first collaboration between Albatros and SvD. With over 450 000 listens, "The Dynasty" immediately became the number one podcast at Itunes in Sweden. The podcast has lead to the biggest influx of new SvD subscribers of all time.

The people behind the podcast
Jan Almgren is an author, financial news reporter and investigative journalist at SvD. Almgren has covered the Stenbeck company Kinnevik and the Stenbeck family for over 20 years. Almgren has been awarded with the most prestigious journalistic prizes “The Golden Spade” and “The Great Journalist Prize”. He has also been nominated for the award “Financial Journalist of the Year”. Almgren has written the book “The Swedish Venture Capitalists”/“De svenska riskkapitalisterna” (2015) with Carolina Neurath. He is the reporter behind “The Dynasty”, as well as the narrator of the podcast.

Adam Svanell is a cultural journalist, author, filmmaker, and editor at SvD. He has been nominated for the journalistic price “The Golden Spade” and has been awarded in the category “Best Serialized Podcast” at the New York Festival’s radio gala. Svanell is also the author of several books, such as “Anonymous Performancists”/”Anonyma prestationister” (2020). He is currently nominated for the prize “Media Leader of the Year”. He is the producer of “The Dynasty”.

Executive producers of the podcast are Hugo Lavett and Lovisa Lamm Nordenskiöld of the prominent podcast company and also Albatros clients’ Banda.

Albatros represents the film & TV rights for Dynastin / The Dynasty.

Agent: Martina Österling