11 Facts About Rickard Falkvinge

Rickard Falkvinge is currently a political evangelist with the party, spreading the ideas across the world.

Rickard Falkvinge grew up in Ruddalen, Gothenburg, and studied Natural Sciences at Goteborgs Hogre Samskola.

Rickard Falkvinge's first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, and then a Commodore 64, and created his first company, Infoteknik, in 1988 at the age of 16.

Rickard Falkvinge took out a large bank loan, quit his job at Cypak, and started working with building the Pirate Party full-time.

Rickard Falkvinge was noticeably downcast when the exit polls arrived during the election night party, but promised the gathered people that this would not be the end of the fight.

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Rickard Falkvinge led the Pirate Party while living off of donations and charity from supporters for 18 months, until he was hired by the European Parliament following entry.

Rickard Falkvinge called this success a re-ignition for the civil liberties fight in Europe and the world.

On 1 January 2011, five years after the party's foundation, Rickard Falkvinge announced that he was stepping down as party leader, and that deputy party leader Anna Troberg would step into the role.

In February 2016, it was announced that Rickard Falkvinge had accepted a full-time role as head of privacy for Private Internet Access, a US-based personal VPN service.

Rickard Falkvinge was awarded the Swedish Guldmusen award as IT person of the year 2010, citing his successes in bringing the Net and its consequences to the political table.

Rickard Falkvinge has been listed as one of the 100 most influential people in Sweden by Fokus magazine.