Idar Vollvik

Entrepreneur

Birthday December 11, 1967

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Norway

Age 57 years old

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About

Norwegian serial entrepreneur and former daytrader on the Oslo stock exchange who gained national attention as a participant on the Norwegian version of Dancing With The Stars in 2014.

Before Fame

He studied at BI Norwegian School of Business. In 2001, he bought the mobile phone company Chess for 4 million NOK, and eventually became highly visible in the media due to continual PR stunts. After an additional acquisition, he sold the company to TeliaSonera for 2.4 billion NOK.

Trivia

He was the main owner of a surveillance technology company called DynaPel, which lost him over 200 million NOK. He would wind up losing the money he earned from selling Chess which put him back in the mobile game when he established a new company called Ludo Mobil.

Family Life

He is the son of a fisherman and grew up as the youngest of eight siblings in Roan municipality on Fosenhalvøya in Sør-Trøndelag.

Associated With

Both he and Tone Damli were competitors on Norway's Dancing with the Stars.