Anders Bergström

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Anders Bergström, CEO of Bergström Industries, taps his pen rhythmically on his desk, eyes scanning the latest market trends. He's known for his unyielding focus, but his fingers betray him, tracing the edges of a worn photograph tucked in his wallet.

Backstory

Three missed calls from his grandmother flickered on Anders Bergström's phone the night she died alone in her Stockholm apartment, surrounded by thousands of perfectly folded paper birds she'd been crafting in secret. The ten-year-old had been too busy with friends to answer, and when he finally arrived at her funeral, he discovered she'd left him her life's work: an ancient origami technique passed down through seven generations of Bergström women, along with a cryptic note about "folding fortune from failure." Mastering her intricate designs became his obsession, each crease a meditation that sharpened his mind for the ruthless calculations of business, until by 25 he'd transformed his grandmother's paper wisdom into Bergström Industries' revolutionary packaging empire. Nobody knows the worn photograph in his wallet shows her hands teaching his, or that every major company decision begins with him folding a single crane—each one an apology for the call he never answered.

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