Mathias Sundin
Co-founder & Executive Chairman of the Warp Institute Foundation
Co-founder & CEO of Warp News
Founder of the Optimistic Youth Movement
Mathias began his career as a changemaker as a Swedish Member of Parliament. In 2018, he choose not to run for reelection because he had a vision for a much bigger opportunity to have a more positive impact on the future.
Over the years he had become angry over how pessimists were seen as rational. Frustrated when optimists were mocked. Annoyed with the news media for their focus on negative news.
Mathias became more and more optimistic about the future of humanity.
Life on Earth improved at a rate never seen before. But progress was slowed down by all the pessimism. To solve the biggest challenges, we need to move faster.
Mathias started dreaming of a world where optimists are seen as rational. With news media showing a fact-based view of the world. And naive pessimists don’t stand in the way of progress.
Therefore he founded the non-profit Warp Institute Foundation with the mission to make the future come sooner.
In the community, ideas are born that move humanity forward.
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Fun Facts about Mathias
- Mathias Sundin holds the unofficial Swedish record in door-to-door canvassing, knocking on 10,001 doors during the 2010 election campaign.
- He became the first political candidate to only accept bitcoin as campaign donations.
- For several years he ran Sweden’s largest blog about American politics.
- He has met Barack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and several other presidential candidates.
- In 2008 he started ABBA fans for McCain and volunteered in McCain’s campaign during a summer month. He was awarded Best Campaigner and got to meet John & Cindy McCain before a campaign event in Reno, Nevada.
- In 2012 he came out with a political thriller about a Swedish-American Senator from Minnesota, running for President.
- In the late 90s, he played in the first Swedish Championship for the real-time strategy game Starcraft and won the first game using a zergling rush. But later lost, because that was the only strategy he knew. Later, in 2010, he won the Swedish Starcraft Championship for politicians, together with his brother, again using a zergling rush. Still the only strategy he knew.
- Around the year 2000, he ran the gaming website GamerInside, and organized some of the first e-sport events. In 2001 he was head of the Swedish team that competed in the World Cyber Games in South Korea.
- During the 2017 party leadership election, he organized the first primary election in Sweden.
- He has “danced” in the Swedish Parliament’s chamber, protesting an old law that demanded that restaurants and nightclubs needed a special permit to allow people to dance. A newspaper found this so funny they did a music video of the event.
