Tech
This company became the first to reach a $1 trillion market cap in 2018.
Apple.
Birth place of IKEA
Almhult, Sweden
The five highest volcanoes on Earth are located in these mountains.
The Andes.
The dating app that introduced swiping right as a cultural phenomenon.
Tinder.
After taking multiple days off to renovate the house, he still needs to take more off.
Denys, duh.
This tech giant has discontinued over 200 products since 2006 — including a social network, four messaging apps, and a cloud gaming platform
IKEA's small urban stores official name.
LADA stores.
The South Korean film that became the first non-English movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture in 2020.
Parasite.
Meta's text-based Twitter rival that launched in July 2023 and gained 100 million users in 5 days.
Threads.
Teammate who's Jira estimations are pretty easy to guess.
Valery (2)
Apple's most mocked product ever — a $1,000 piece of metal with a single, very passive purpose.
Apple Pro Stand - Apple monitor stand
IKEA acquired this audio smart home brand in 2019 to push into the connected home market.
Sonos.
Mike Judge co-created this comedy about engineers and tech start-ups.
Silicon Valley.
This gaming giant took Apple to court in 2020, arguing that a 30% cut on all in-app purchases was monopolistic.
Epic games - Fortnite company.
Current official size of the team as of W9 2026.
12
This tech giant announced layoffs of over 10,000 employees in 2023 while doubling down on AI investment.
Microsoft.
If IKEA were to be a publicly traded company, you could boast in LinkedIn that you work at a "_______ ___ company"
Fortune 500.
Architectural movement from the 1920s that stripped buildings of all ornament in favour of pure aesthetic function.
Bauhaus.
The term for the phenomenon where apps deliberately make it hard to cancel subscriptions or delete accounts.
Dark patterns.
This teammate uses the most unique emojis in Slack reactions.
Filip
Portable tech that will supposedly revolutionise the space in the next couple of years.
Extended reality glasses (XR glasses)
IKEA's catalogues were once printed in higher quantities than the Bible — they stopped printing them entirely what year.
2021
This British author volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War in 1937, an experience that would shape the political views of his most celebrated work.
George Orwell.
Tiktok clone but just with genAI videos that shot to #1 on the App Store in December 2024 — only to crash back down innevitably.
Sora - from Open AI.
Teammate that has spent the longest in E&F.
Erik (Denys left for a year)