A New Beginning

by Nicholas Carlson

I Nicholas Carlson was born on the 7th of May 1960. My father was Leif Ove Krogstad born on the 10th of September 1922 did leave on the 19th of August 2004: my Grandpa was August Krogstad and my Grandma was Klara Georgine Coldevin. In 1963 we - our family – left Norway when I was 3 years old to Sweden – lived there until 1974 when I came back to Norway – at Steinkjer. 14 years old – to my father Leif Ove. It had come to divorce between my mother and father in 1968. And my father returned to Norway in 1968 – there he continued to work as a salesman selling books for a company in Trondheim, Norway. My father was the best salesman they had in the company Norwegian Knowledge Literature and given the Inspector in the company already 1968. My father through life and very fast then became wealthy. I was from I left Norway 3 years old longing back – and in 1974 I came back to my father in Norway. 20 years old I went to the Foreign Legion in 1980 to 1981 and became a legionnaire in a age of 20. My sweet heart in the USA is Babie Blues from Michigan. At the time I was 14 years old - it was at Christmas time in 1974 I did come to Norway from 11 years in Sweden - and then to my Leif Ove – who then lived in Steinkjer.This itself in December 1974 to just come back to Norway - Steinkjer - was and always will be at that point - the greatest happening in my life so far. Took then only one year and the very first love in my life - came also in to reality - the most beautiful girl at Steinkjer Secondary School - a girl Kjersti - we were then both in love - she was as a pure child coming back to Norway from The United States of America - grown up there as a pure child in USA and handled off course then American English at school - and this love towards this girl was so far without doubt there and then the second and biggest happening in positive remark in my life at the time it did happen in 1975 - that love lasted for two years. At the time in 1974 arriving from diaspora in Sweden for 11 years back to Norway.

36 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2014

About the author

Nicholas is Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider and the author of "Marissa Mayer and the Fight To Save Yahoo!" Previously, he was Business Insider's chief correspondent.

His investigative reporting rewrote the histories of Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon. Carlson's coverage of Yahoo won Digiday's award for Best Editorial Achievement of the year in 2014.

In 2015, Carlson's New York Times Magazine cover story, "What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs," was a finalist for a Mirror Award for best in-depth/enterprise reporting.

Carlson is a contributor to Bloomberg Television's biography series "Game Changers" and a frequent guest on CNBC.

Previously, he reported for Gawker Media's Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag.