Since I was a kid I have loved building stuff with my hands. 

My dad having his own workshop, let me play around with tools and various materials. 

It lead to a passion for technology and creating stuff. 

My dad got me into racing gokarts and formula/car racing from when i was 12 till i was 18. 

When I was 17 I got into MMA and have been having fights as well. 

I studied Mechanical engineering at Aalborg University for 3 years before I started my own company, DIC Group, during the summer before my 4th year. It was an incredible experience and I quickly saw that in the first 2 months of starting my own company that summer, I made more money that I would in half a year as a mechanical engineer. This, combined with my extensive background growing up in a workshop, allowed me to bet on myself and take the leap into DIC Group full time instead of finishing my studies. 

By age 22, I scaled DIC Group to 22 employees, $2 million (USD) in revenue, and made my first million in profit (DKK). Then, I experienced by biggest business hardship at the time when a massive contract went south. In the end it unfortunately cost me my company and ended in bankruptcy. Even though I felt like giving up, I refused to do so. I simply believe that the way to win is through perseverance. So, I got back up and took all of my learnings and experience into my next venture, Airflight.

Shortly after the bankruptcy I founded @Airflight together with a team ( now we are only 2 founders) with the aim of making ordinary people get an extraordinary experience by flying in a flying car.

We flew the flying car and got a lot of media attention that showed us an market opportunity within the Wind turbine industry for flying spare parts and tools. 

Airflight now applied for grants and investment to convert the flying car into an unmanned 100kg payload drone called the AF100. One of the largest quadcopters in the world. 

With the AF100 flying we raised capital and got more grants to build the AF200 a 200kg payload drone that would be able to solve multiple industry headaches. 

Unfortunately we crashed the AF200 in the midst of a funding round, forcing us to scale down operations. This crash seemed to be the end of Airflight. 

I have now partnered up with one of the best companies in Denmark, Jack Foged A/S, to head their sales efforts and deliver even more value to even more customers. 

If you want a serious partner to build your piping project, then reach out to me and let's talk. 

I love the game of business and will probably work till the day I die, because I just cant stop.

Mikkel K.

2026 er landet og det er vi også hos Jack Foged A/S hvor vi er i gang med flere projekter i både sort og rustfrit stål. 

2025 var et år med spændende projekter indenfor energi og industri. 
Det som er spændende for en teknologi nørd som mig selv er at være med til at se projekter som rent faktisk gør en forskel for Danmarks borgere. 

Altså det når projekter går fra ideer og koncepter til at stå som færdige løsninger som producerer varme eller andet. 

Det som vi oftest glemmer i vores branche er egentlig vigtigheden af vores arbejde. Vi bygger hvert år rør til anlæg som bidrager til en bedre verden. 

Det er sku meget fedt, hvis jeg selv skal sige det.

Mikkel Karsgaard

Welded piping experts: Design → installation | 39+ yrs | @JACK FOGED A/S

Så er vi landet tilbage på Dansk jord og må sige det er noget af en kontrast fra Brasilien.

At komme fra 30 grader og sol hjem til - 5 grader og sne er noget som sætter tingene i perspektiv. 

Det fik mig til at tænke at sådan er det også tit i erhvervslivet fordi hvordan ved vi egentlig hvad godt er hvis ikke vi har prøvet dårligt?

Hvis ikke vi har kontrasten at måle med så tager vi måske det gode for givet. 

En af de ting jeg tager med som vi kan være stolte af i Danmark det er vores infrastruktur på mange måder, lige fra toilettet til kloakken til veje uden de store huller. 

Er en stolt dansker idag.

I en verden der synes at blive mere og mere skør er det vigtigt at have stabile samarbejdspartnere. Jack startede Jack Foged A/S i 1986.

Ham og teamet bag Jack Foged A/S har klaret sig igennem flere kriser end de fleste og virksomheden styres idag af hans to sønner Philip og Jacob. 

Når man er virksomhedsejer som Jack var og som han har lært hans sønner så lader man ikke nyhederne gå sig på. 
Man møder stadig ind og lægger sig i selerne for de kunder som har brug for en. 

Vi har lavet rør i 40 år og som jeg ser det så sker det nok også de næste 40 år som ejerledet virksomhed. 

Så har du de lange briller på i jeres virksomhed eller skal have en samarbejdspartner der er stabil, så ring eller skriv og lad os tage en snak.

I have come to realize in my life that the time I feel the most alive is when I am growing.

But growth doesn't come without pain, suffering, or failure, which is what I usually try to avoid from a logic perspective. 

Which brings me to the quote: "A man who never fell has no glory; the man who fell 21 times but got up 22 times—that man has way more glory."

When we humans put the fear of suffering or failure behind us and try anyway, that is where the real growth and happiness are buried. 

At least I have found that to be true for me.

To ting som ikke kommer til gå af mode i 2026:

Den gode svejsning og den gode relation. 

To ting som vi går ekstremt meget op i hos Jack Foged A/S.

Fordi den gode relation er med til at danne fundamentet for den gode svejsning og den gode svejsning er fundamentet for den gode relation i vores verden. 

Står du med et projekt hvor du skal have lave et rørsystem og du gerne vil have en samarbejdspartner der har styr på alt hvad der har med svejste rørsystemer at gøre og som vægter den gode relation. 

Så kan det være tiden er inde til at række ud til mig og tage en uforpligtende snak og se om der kan opnås en god relation så vi kan leverer nogle gode svejsninger til jer.

Noget af det sværeste ved at være projektleder er når telefonen begynder at ringe oftere og oftere og emails bliver flere og flere med problemer omkring dit projekt. 

Jeg kender det, Philip og Jacob kender det. 

Derfor har vi fokus på at hjælpe projektledere med at have en partner som gør arbejdsloading for projektlederen mindre så de kan fokusere på det rigtige. 

Det er derfor vi ikke kun laver rørarbejde:
- Dimensionering og spændingsverifikation (Rohr2) 
- Support-design og sekundært stålgalleri 
- Præfabrikation, montage, NDT 
- Godkendelse gennem notified body 
- Komplet dokumentation

Fra første beregning til sidste mærkeplade.
Ikke fordi vi er bedre til hvert enkelt element.
Men fordi koordinations-overhead dræber bundlinjen i flere projekter end dårligt håndværk.
Og fordi én ansvarlig part betyder nul tid brugt på at finde ud af hvis fejl det egentlig var.
Hvis du har haft et projekt hvor koordinationen tog mere tid end arbejdet så ved du præcis hvad jeg snakker om.

Vi er ligeglade med hvad farve du gerne vil have dine rør i, vi er mest interesteret i at levere et godt stykke håndværk - Uanset farven og størrelsen.

Jack Foged A/S fordi vi elsker rør.

Power to X er en af de fremadgående industrier i Danmark. 
Derfor er jeg taget til konference i Vejle for at repræsentere Jack Foged A/S. 

Power to X anlæg kræver mange procesrør og vi står klar til at hjælpe med at bygge, installerer og dokumenterer dem for jer.

A little behind the scenes for when we were putting the finishing touches on a big piping project last year.

 The project had pipes with pressures up to 140Bar. 
Carbon pipes up to 12" 
stainless up to 8" PN100 

Complex system in general. 
Tight deadline. 

But we made it happen in the end. 
Because we love making pipes and we love trying our best for our customers.

Sharing this today as I couldn't help but feel this matches the way Philip and Jacob thinks in Jack Foged A/S.

Just always trying to expand the mindset and capabilities. 

Truly inspiring and a great place to work. 

It makes a big difference for our clients as well when you have a partner that constantly is looking to become better and deliver more. 

Because they are going for it.

I have found that some of the most profound insights and growth have come from traveling. 

This winter I changed the cold in Denmark 🇩🇰 with the heat of Brazil🇧🇷 

What you gain when you travel far and experience different cultures is perspective. 

One thing that traveling all over the world have taught me is that the majority of the world consists of great people that are soing their best to do good in the world. 

Remember that when the media portrays stuff. 

We only see the extreme stuff because that's what drives revenue because of clicks. 

If you were to report on the majority it would be boring. 

I will over the coming weeks share some of the insights I have gained and the contrasts between the two countries. 

Enjoy the weekend!

PS. Found out why people love to ride horse my first time trying it, WOW 👌

LinkedIn er enten verdens mest kraftfulde salgsmaskine eller det er Facebook for folk i jakkesæt.

Forskellen er ikke platformen.
Det er hvordan du filtrerer den.

Jeg brugte sidste måned på at rydde op i mit feed.
Unfollowede 4000+ personer.

Ikke fordi de er dårlige mennesker.
Men fordi de fylder mit "intelligence dashboard" med støj.

Her er hvad jeg lærte:
De fleste bruger LinkedIn som "passiv scroll" - ligesom Instagram.
Scroller. Liker. Føler sig opdateret. Lukker app.
Nul forretningsmæssig værdi.
Men hvis du behandler LinkedIn som et intelligence filter i stedet, ændrer spillet sig totalt:

FØR min oprydning:
180 minutter om dagen på platformen
80% irrelevant indhold (motivational quotes, viral reposts, humble brags)
2-3 relevante posts om ugen
0 konkrete leads

EFTER min oprydning:
60 minutter om dagen
90% direkte relevant for Jack Foged A/S (industri-nyheder, projekt-opdateringer, potentielle kunder der poster om udfordringer)
2-3 relevante posts om DAGEN
4 konkrete samtaler startet sidste uge alene

Det er ikke ROI. Det er ROA: Return on Attention.
Så hvad unfollowede jeg?

Type 1: Motivation Merchants Folk der deler generisk "inspiration" uden branche-kontekst.

Type 2: Viral Chasers Folk der re-poster andres indhold for likes uden at tilføje indsigt.

Type 3: Personal Brand Performere Folk der deler "min rejse" stories uden praktisk værdi for mit arbejde.

Hvad FØLGER jeg stadig?
Type A: Problem Posters Folk der deler konkrete udfordringer i vores industri.

Type B: Markedsintelligens Folk der analyserer trends, regulering, nye projekter.

Type C: Potentielle Partnere Folk hvis virksomheder kunne bruge vores løsninger eller vi kunne samarbejde med.

Den simple test:
Hvis jeg læser dette post, ved jeg noget jeg ikke vidste før som gør mig bedre til mit arbejde?
Hvis nej → unfollow.

De fleste er bange for at unfollow fordi "hvad nu hvis jeg misser noget?"
Men det du misser ved at IKKE rydde op er langt værre:
Du misser signalerne i støjen.

Sidste uge postede en potentiel kunde om et rør-problem.
Jeg så det. Kommenterede. forsætter samtalen i DM's og får Email til at sætte et møde op. 
Den post havde 12 likes. Algoritmen viste det næsten ikke til nogen.
Men jeg så det fordi mit feed er renset for alt andet støj.

Det er ikke om at se ALT.
Det er om at se det RIGTIGE.

Næste gang du åbner LinkedIn:
Spørg dig selv: "Bruger jeg dette som entertainment eller som intelligence?"
Hvis entertainment → Du konkurrerer mod TikTok og taber.
Hvis intelligence → Du har en unfair advantage ingen andre bruger.

Dit feed er dit våben.
Rens det.

Det i får ved at vælge Jack Foged A/S som jeres partner det kan ses på dette billede: 

To knejter der har haft passion for rør næsten lige så lang tid som vi har eksisteret. 

Philip Foged og Jacob Foged brænder for at drive virksomheden deres far byggede op videre I samme ånd. 

Jeg vil næste vædde med virksomheden stadig eksisterer om 40 år og stadig er i familien. 

Det gør mig stolt at være med på en rejse der har lange briller på og som er bygget på de gode værdier. 

Har I brug for en stærk samarbejdspartner til at lave jeres rør projekter så ræk ud. 

Vi elsker rør.

Something magical happens when you speak from the heart. 
People see you in your purest form, and then if they decide, they will connect to you in the deepest way possible. 

In moments like these, we create relationships that has a foundation that is rock solid because we know who the people are.

Because they showed their heart, not their intellect. 

Some people want to use their intellect to divide and conquer the world. 

Love is the strongest force in the world and has the power to restore order. 

Let's come together and use our hearts to guide us. 

This Monday starts with gratitude for all the amazing people I have met around the world who showed me their heart.

For nogen er det bare en svejsning, for os er det meget mere. 

Rør - Fittings - svejsning - dokumentation - installation - svejsning - dokumentation. 

Alt sammen med et forsøg på at blive 1% bedre hver gang for vores kunder og for Danmark. 

For med en stærk industri så står Danmark stærkt i verden. 

Vi er glad for at bidrage til en stærk industri. 

Jack Foged A/S Vi elsker rør. 

Har du et projekt hvor i skal have lavet rør så ræk ud og få en snak.

Jeg er ved at læse Morten Münsters's nye bog afdelingen for magisk tænkning og der er en ting jeg bider fast i. 

Gør mindre. 
og 
bliv bedre. 

Noget der går meget imod hustler culture men som faktisk giver rigtig god mening. 

Vi har alle sammen et livs hjul fyldt med: 

Bolig 
Sundhed
familie/venner
Arbejde/studie
Parforhold
Personlig udvikling
Fritid
Økonomi

Når vi bliver forblændet af folks highlight reels på sociale medier så kan vi få den forståelse at nogle folks livshjul er maxet ud og er 10/10 på alle områderne. 

Fakta er at du ser 10/10 på et område, hvilket i de fleste tilfælde betyder 1/10 på et eller flere områder. 

Hvis du skal have et godt mentalt helbred så er vi nødt til at sænke forventningerne til os selv på alle områderne og vide at hvis vi rammer 7/10 på de fleste områder så er vi faktisk mest lykkelig. 

Men vil du gerne være verdens bedste til noget og vinde guld til OL, så glem balance og gå ALL-in på et område og forsøm alle de andre i den periode. 

De fleste er ikke klar til at ofre det som skal til for at være verdens bedste og det er helt okay. 

Sænk forventningerne til dig selv og lad være med at sammenlign dig selv med andres ekstraordinære highlight reels og fokuser på at være middelmådig og lykkelig på de fleste områder. 

Med det sagt husk at intet er perfekt og alting er dynamisk. 
Godt nok er bedst for langtids lykke for den almindelige borger uden ønske om OL.

I går så jeg vigtigheden af kommunikation. 

Hvis du som kommunikator ikke får segmenteret dit budskab i folk så de husker dig og din info så har du fejlet. 

I den tekniske verden er der efter min mening simpelthen ikke nok fokus på at give folk træning i kommunikation. 

Hvis folk ikke kan huske dine slides og dine pointer fordi din kommunikation er dårlig, ja så har du spildt din egen tid, virksomhedens tid og andres tid. 

Men det er ikke din skyld, det er simpelthen fordi kommunikation som fagkundskab aldrig bliver prioriteret, da det jo virker som spild af tid. 

Men det er det virkelig ikke, det er noget som kan have stor værdi for dig, dine kunder og dine samarbejdspartnere. 

For mere fokus på kommunikation.

For most of my adult life and career, I have been training the wrong muscle.

I have realized the true impact of that now. 

Coming from a home where alcohol abuse was close to my everyday, "normal" was something I wanted to get away from. 
Hence, I have never wanted to be "normal" or do normal stuff.  

What that has allowed me to do in my career is to do extraordinary stuff and also in my personal life. But 33 years in and closing in on 34 years, it has struck me what the downside is:

Doing the basic stuff is HARD. 

Why? 

Because deep down I associated that with pain. 

Yet most of the really extraordinary achievements and joyful moments come from doing the basic stuff really, really well. 

We are constantly looking for the next hack or tip that can advance us in our lives. 
Yet, what you are looking for is already there; in most cases, you are just not doing it. 

The muscle I have been more aware of training the last couple of years, without me knowing fully, is the muscle of doing the basic stuff really well. 

Training the muscle of doing what you know you should be doing but you aren't. 

That muscle is what many of us should be training. 

Not looking for an extra PDF to download from LinkedIn that you end up not using anyway. 

Start doing the basic boring stuff.

Building in stealth (for now). If you want a peek behind the curtain, DM me and I’ll show you.

Blaine Davis

It’s a red flag when a candidate clearly uses AI in their job application.

Not that AI is always bad… but how you use it matters.

Using AI to move faster? Totally fine.
We want people using tools like Cursor, copilots, and automation to be more efficient.

But there’s a line.

When an application feels “ChatGPT-brained” – meaning no original point of view or thought behind it – that’s a problem. Especially in a job application, where the entire point is to show how you think and communicate.

Everyone knows how to use these tools now. But if I can’t tell what’s actually your idea vs what the model produced, I’m not learning anything about you.

AI should accelerate your thinking, not replace it.

Let me know if you’d like a rewritten version of this post with a stronger hook—

I think beating leukemia recalibrated what “high stakes” means to me.

When you’ve stared down something that’s actually life or death, a lot of the noise falls away.

I don’t sweat the small stuff anymore.
Missed deadlines. A deal falling through. A tough week.
None of that moves me the way it used to.

Going through cancer taught me agency in a very real way.
You can let things happen to you…or you can decide to be the driver of your own outcome.

I became obsessed with controlling everything in my power that I could control:
My mindset. My effort.
How I showed up every single day.

Once you make that shift – from reacting to owning – everything changes.

You stop taking punch after punch and start steering reality through your own decisions.

And that mindset carried straight into building companies.

Business can feel intense. People’s livelihoods are on the line. The pressure is real.
But it’s not the same kind of pressure.

Surviving cancer stripped away distractions and taught me focus.
It made me ruthless about what actually matters – and calm about what doesn’t.

Life is short.
Perspective is everything.

And when you’re clear on that, you move with a lot more confidence.

Back in the office this week… still mentally on a beach.

The last few weeks were a bit of a blur.

December was all about getting the team dialed in — new hires, onboarding, and finally feeling like we’re in a really good rhythm. (We wrapped it with our first company holiday party, which was a great moment to pause and reflect on a big first full year.)

Then everything shut down for a bit.
Spent Christmas with family. Visit from my brother and his new baby. Also got to see Lauren’s family and her grandma.

And then Lauren and I disappeared to the Cayman Islands for our 5-year anniversary. 
Beach, scuba diving, boxing…lots of backgammon (I won).

Now it’s back to reality.
Back to work. Back to the cold.

But feeling rested and ready for what’s next.

We’ve reached the part of the AI era where we use AI… to police AI.

Job applications. Homework. College papers.
All being run through “AI detectors.”

It’s kind of absurd.

And it reminds me of school growing up.
We weren’t allowed to use calculators on tests because:
“What if you don’t have one in the real world?”

Fast forward a few years…
Everyone has a calculator in their pocket at all times.

We built calculators to do math – then banned calculators.
Now we allow them again because, obviously.

Feels like we’re doing the same thing with AI.

We built powerful tools to help people think and move faster…
Then immediately started trying to ban or “detect” them.

Using AI to police AI might be the most on-the-nose moment of this whole transition.

You can tell a lot about a leader by how they act under pressure.

How you communicate when things are calm should be the same way you communicate when things are intense. 

If your tone, language, or behavior changes the moment pressure shows up, people feel it immediately.

Pressure is part of the job, not an exception. And in my experience, the best leaders absorb that pressure themselves instead of passing it down through stress or micromanagement.

One small language shift I try to be intentional about is this:

“I trust you to get this done.”
“Thanks for owning this. I have full confidence in you.”

That’s it. No hovering or constant check-ins. No subtle panic disguised as “just following up.”

When you explicitly communicate trust, people rise to it. They take ownership, and they execute with more confidence and clarity.

Your team should never have to guess whether you trust them.

They should hear it directly – especially when things are moving fast.

If someone says “yes” to your price immediately, you’re not charging enough.

That sounds counterintuitive, but think about what’s happening. 

There’s no real buy-in. No pause for consideration. And when there’s no commitment on the buyer’s side, they’re far less likely to actually use the product, or put in the effort to make it work.

That’s how you quietly set customers up to fail.

The healthiest deals are the ones where someone has to think about it. They go back, run it by their team, feel the weight of the decision… and then come back and commit. 

Another signal to raise your prices: 

If you’re stretched thin or building a waitlist, you have pricing power. Also, if no one ever complains about your prices, you’re definitely not charging enough. 

Charge more. Grandfather existing customers if needed. Let price do some of the qualification for you.

The goal isn’t to make it easy to say yes.
It’s to make sure the people who do say yes are actually invested in the outcome.

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