Appearances
Media
Conversations Sami Miettinen has been invited into — other people's podcasts, radio and
television. Each entry says what the appearance was, who hosted it and where the recording
lives. The recordings belong to their hosts; these pages point at them rather than
reproduce them. For talks Sami gives himself, see Talks & Events.
Podcast · #paasipodi #87 · 2026-08-21 · 1:11:56 · In Finnish
“#paasipodi 87 | Oikeistoblokki, kesän säädöt ja paljon muutakin, vieraana Sami Miettinen”
Paasi is now an MP as well as a podcast host, and the episode opens on the summer's biggest government dispute — Wille Rydman allocating the NGO funding cuts himself, and the trap the National Coalition Party would have walked into had it started complaining. It moves through bloc politics on the Swedish and Danish models, and lands on the argument Miettinen thinks changes election debate permanently: political rhetoric without analysis has worked only for as long as checking it was expensive. He then opens his own fact-checking workflow in full, including two real cross-referencing corrections from his own back catalogue.
Recording hosted by Martin Paasi
Podcast · Puheenaihe 676 · 2026-06-21 · 1:18:59 · In Finnish
“SpaceX, Elon Musk, vasemmisto ja kateus (Sami Miettinen) | Puheenaihe 676”
Sami Miettinen as a guest on Puheenaihe, hosted by Rami Kurimo, on SpaceX's listing and the first trillionaire: what a hundred times revenue actually prices in, why the relative multiple is never the timing signal, why Musk's companies are best read as a stack of long-dated options, and why the Finnish reaction to visible wealth says more about Finland than about Musk.
Recording hosted by Rami Kurimo
Podcast · #paasipodi #73 · 2026-05-14 · 58:32 · In Finnish
“Tampereen sijoitusmessujen etkot ft. Sami Miettinen | #paasipodi 73”
Both men are speaking at the Tampere investment fair the following week and neither has prepared, so they rehearse live. The result is the clearest account yet of how Miettinen actually uses AI for investing — foundation model, harness, memory and curated context as four separate layers — plus the €5,000 newborn pension, the small-cap drought, and a full-throated argument for building data centres in Finland.
Recording hosted by Martin Paasi
Podcast · #paasipodi #71 · 2026-04-30 · 1:01:45 · In Finnish
“Kehysriihi 2026. Mitä jäi käteen? | #paasipodi 71”
Two days after the Orpo government's 2026 spending-limits session, Martin Paasi and Sami Miettinen go through what actually survived: the self-employed pension reform, the rewritten taxation of employee share options, youth employment measures, the household deduction and first-home loans — and then the €17 billion annual deficit underneath it all. Preceded by a quarter-hour on the agent architecture both men are now running.
Recording hosted by Martin Paasi
Podcast · Kuuntelija Kuuntelija · 2026-04-12 · 2:32:47 · In Finnish
“Tekoäly tulee muuttamaan KAIKEN eivätkä päättäjämme tajua siitä MITÄÄN — Sami Miettinen”
Sami Miettinen as a guest on Roni Arvonen's Kuuntelija for two and a half hours on what AI already does and what Finnish policy has not noticed: why AI labour is not capital in the Marxist sense, what it does to a pension system funded by wage-linked contributions, which jobs go first and which go last, and a step-by-step account of how he actually built and runs his own agent.
Recording hosted by Roni Arvonen
Podcast · #paasipodi #66 · 2026-03-27 · 1:09:33 · In Finnish
“Tekoälyn myrskyvaroitus Osa II | #paasipodi 66”
Five weeks after the first storm warning, Martin Paasi has bought a laptop, installed the tools and shipped his first application. The sequel is a builder's conversation: a four-model podcast engine that argues with itself, persistent agent memory, why index funds and AI discipline are the same problem, a hard look at the Finnish media, and a live design review of an investment robot that tracks which strategy the market is currently obeying.
Recording hosted by Martin Paasi
Podcast · Keijon Tuumaustunti #171 · 2026-03-22 · 1:22:53 · In Finnish
“Kommunismi toteutuu sittenkin? (Sami Miettinen) #171”
Topi Salin asks for a report card on the government and gets an argument that the whole left–right frame has expired. Miettinen's case: taxing human labour is a dying business model, superintelligence arrives on a timescale that makes the basic-income debate incoherent in euros, and the Marxist utopia may arrive by accident — a planned economy run by free intelligence. Around it, the inheritance tax, the pension system as a negative-NPV contract for the young, and where he is actually putting money.
Recording hosted by Topi Salin
Podcast · #paasipodi #61 · 2026-02-19 · 1:10:46 · In Finnish
“Tekoälyn myrskyvaroitus | #paasipodi 61”
Sami Miettinen's fourth visit to Martin Paasi's Paasipodi is a practical field report from inside the tools. An investment banker who wrote Commodore 64 assembly as a teenager and then left coding for thirty years walks through what a modern AI development environment actually looks like, what it costs, how to start from zero, and why he ends the episode by issuing an official AI storm warning dated 19 February 2026.
Recording hosted by Martin Paasi
Podcast · AI Kanava · 2025-11-10 · 1:01:15 · In Finnish
“Vieraana: Sami Miettinen – Neuvottelija: Talous, Tekoäly ja Euroopan rooli AI-kilpailussa”
Sami Miettinen joins Lasse Mikkonen and Harri Juntunen on AI Kanava, recorded at the Neuvottelija studio. An investment banker returns to coding through no-code tools, and the conversation moves from a security bug in a vibe-coded CRM to the future of enterprise SaaS when AI becomes the interface, the capital allocation problem that leaves Finnish companies two-thirds foreign-owned, three regulatory models, and how far a negotiation can be delegated to a machine.
Recording hosted by Lasse Mikkonen & Harri Juntunen
Podcast · Puheenaihe 618 · 2025-08-29 · 1:07:00 · In Finnish
“"Pääomien puute estää Suomen talouskasvun" (Sami Miettinen) | Puheenaihe 618”
Sami Miettinen with Puheenaihe host Leevi Leivo on why Finland has no private capital to build companies with: a median household with too little to invest, €270bn of pension money that logically goes abroad and large, the YEL entrepreneur-pension mess nobody will fix, and what he actually does with his own portfolio — cash weight, tariffs, the dollar, bitcoin and gold.
Recording hosted by Leevi Leivo
Podcast · Myynnillä on asiaa #8 · 2025-08-21 · 1:07:43 · In Finnish
“#8 Minä olen media! feat. Sami Miettinen x Neuvottelija | MOA”
Kert Kenner asks the question a salesperson would: what does it actually take to build your own media, and does it make selling easier? Miettinen answers with five years of operating numbers — why most podcasts die at twelve episodes, why he keeps almost no backlog, what the channel earns and why he does not maximise it, why audio-only is a mistake, and why podcast transcripts are becoming the training material that decides what an AI says about your industry.
Recording hosted by Kert Kenner
Podcast · Kvarn X · 2025-06-09 · 55:41 · In Finnish
“Väärää Talouspolitiikkaa? - Sami Miettinen”
Kvarn Capital's Martin Wichmann interviews Miettinen, and the hard core of the conversation is the breaking of the Japanese yen carry trade and what it does to the US debt market. Thirty years of borrowing cheaply in yen and investing into the dollar complex are ending as Japan's own long end rises and the money is wanted at home — draining the flow that finances Treasuries precisely as 37 trillion of federal debt comes up for refinancing. Along the way: why self-inflicted uncertainty now weakens the dollar and raises rates at the same time, where there is left to run, and why a bitcoin treasury company is a carry trade without a yield.
Recording hosted by Martin Wichmann
Podcast · Viisasteluklubi · 2025-03-01 · 43:42 · In Finnish
“Viisasteluklubin kasvuraportti: Tsemppiä hattuun ja painetta tuubiin! Martin Paasi, Sami Miettinen”
Ivan Puopolo hosts Sami Miettinen and, newly elected to parliament, Martin Paasi to work through the Murto working group's growth proposals — replacing inheritance tax with capital gains tax on disposal, and letting share exchanges roll over untaxed. The conversation turns into the sharpest account of why Finland cannot cut: a first-hand description of how a coalition government's programme survives, and Miettinen's own proposal for making the public sector produce more, better, with less.
Recording hosted by Ivan Puopolo
Press · Yle Uutiset · 2025-02-04 · In Finnish
“Trumpin toimien taustalla on klassinen hullun miehen neuvottelutaktiikka, sanoo suomalainen asiantuntija”
Yle asked Sami Miettinen to read Donald Trump's tariff threats as negotiation behaviour rather than politics. His answer: this is the classic madman tactic, the same one Trump used with banks and property clients long before his political career — and it works because the threats are credible, the power is asymmetric and the American economy absorbs the damage better than its counterparties do.
hosted by Roni Kuronen
Podcast · Kuuntelija Kuuntelija · 2025-01-12 · 1:42:19 · In Finnish
“Perintövero ja vaurastuminen – Sami Miettinen”
Sami Miettinen as a guest on Roni Arvonen's Kuuntelija on Finland's most hated tax: why the damage is compounding cut off too early rather than the €1.3bn it raises, what nobody inherits is a sack of cash, what Sweden's 2005 abolition did to private capital there, and why Finnish companies end up owned by the state, the pension system and foreigners.
Recording hosted by Roni Arvonen
Press · Kauppalehti · 2024-12-08 · In Finnish
“Yhtiöitä pörssiin listaava Sami Miettinen kertoo, voisiko listautumisannin oikeasti suunnata vain helsinkiläisille”
Mikael Jungner proposed floating the Helsinki-owned energy company Helen and steering a third of the shares to Helsinki residents at a discount. Kauppalehti asked Miettinen whether that is possible. His answer separates what company law permits from what the market would actually bear — and the more interesting half is the second one: the binding constraint on Finnish listings is not excess demand to be rationed but too little of it.
hosted by Henriikka Korte
Podcast · Futucast #465 · 2024-07-01 · 1:04:24 · In Finnish
“Sami Miettinen & Mikko Alasaarela | Sosiaalinen media ja ahdistunut sukupolvi #465”
The other half of a twin recording made in Futucast's studio the same afternoon as Negotiator 258. Isak Rautio, Sami Miettinen and Mikko Alasaarela take Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation in a different direction: the RC-car experiment that showed how fast a recommendation algorithm drifts, why boredom tolerance matters, what happened to boys, and whether the family unit that was supposed to replace all this still works.
Recording hosted by Isak Rautio
Podcast · Heikelä & Koskelo 23 minuuttia 708 · 2023-08-28 · 46:32 · In Finnish
“Sami Miettinen: Talous kestää, Suomi ei | Heikelä & Koskelo 23 minuuttia | 708”
A year after the Uniper negotiation, Miettinen returns to score it: what the worst case would have been, why the German state's stake was priced the way it was, and what Germany did with the gas price the moment it took control. From there to why he is unsentimental about Germany's industrial decline, why Finland managed to get poorer in nominal dollars, where the next banking crisis actually sits, and whether the BRICS bloc is anything to worry about.
Recording hosted by Jussi Heikelä & Arto Koskelo
Podcast · Sijoituskästi #102 · 2022-12-06 · 55:08 · In Finnish
“#102 Näin neuvottelet itsellesi palkankorotuksen ft. Sami Miettinen”
Teemu Liila and Kevin van Dessel ask for the step-by-step version rather than the platitudes, and get it: use Finland's open tax records to plot your colleagues' pay against their tenure, set the promotion conversation eighteen months early, come back with the goals your boss gave you, and then stay quiet. Around it, an unusually candid tour of investment banking — Credit Suisse First Boston hours, the Nordea deal Miettinen calls his biggest win and his biggest failure at once, project code names, fee structures, and why he stopped hiring his own mirror image.
Recording hosted by Teemu Liila & Kevin van Dessel
Podcast · #rahapodi #297 · 2022-09-08 · 1:09:49 · In Finnish
“Keskiluokka, Uniper-kämmi ja kontraamisen jalo taito | #rahapodi 297”
Rahapodi obtained the Uniper negotiation memos by information request and brought in Sami Miettinen to read them as a negotiator rather than a commentator. His verdict: Finland sent the wrong seniority to the wrong subject, defended a sunk seven billion instead of the eight billion still recoverable, and never used the leverage it actually held — Germany's gas dependency and the option of filing Uniper into bankruptcy.
Recording hosted by Miikka Luukkonen & Martin Paasi
Podcast · Heikelä & Koskelo 23 minuuttia 489 · 2022-08-22 · 46:32 · In Finnish
“Neuvottelija Miettinen: Suomessa pankkiiritkin ovat köyhiä | Jakso 489 | Heikelä&Koskelo 23minuuttia”
Jussi Heikelä and Arto Koskelo put the Credit Suisse wealth report on screen and ask whether Finland is rich or poor. Miettinen's answer runs through the €600bn of Finnish net wealth of which €400bn sits in homes, why only 1.9 per cent of adults are dollar millionaires against Sweden's 7, what Iceland did differently after its banking crisis, and — the part he was really brought on for — what makes a good negotiator and why Finland does not prepare.
Recording hosted by Jussi Heikelä & Arto Koskelo
Podcast · Futucast #289 · 2022-08-08 · 1:00:53 · In Finnish
“Sami Miettinen | Maailmanloppu on vain alkua #289”
William von der Pahlen, Isak Rautio and Sami Miettinen read Peter Zeihan's The End of the World Is Just the Beginning against Ray Dalio's changing world order — depopulation and deglobalisation on one side, debt and hegemonic cycles on the other. Miettinen takes Zeihan's demographics seriously and his deglobalisation absolutism much less so, and the argument turns on whether markets and automation can outrun a shrinking workforce.
Recording hosted by William von der Pahlen & Isak Rautio
Podcast · inderesPodi 122 · 2022-05-06 · 1:32:20 · In Finnish
“inderesPodi 122: Investointipankkiirin näkökulma, vieraana Sami Miettinen (6.5.2022)”
Sauli Vilén sets out to pull back the curtain on what actually happens behind an IPO, and Miettinen answers in unusual operational detail: how a lead manager is chosen, why the anchor negotiation is the single most important phase, who is allowed to see the order book, what a cut-back mechanism does, why retail allocation ends up at one per cent, and when a banker should blow the whistle rather than drag a company to market. Then M&A — share consideration versus cash, synergy numbers pulled from thin air — and finally fiscal dominance and the euro.
Recording hosted by Sauli Vilén
Podcast · Viikon viisasteluklubi Ukraina-spesiaali · 2022-02-25 · 52:06 · In Finnish
“Viikon viisasteluklubi / Ukraina-spesiaali / Miettinen-Sammallahti-Puopolo”
Sami Miettinen, Tere Sammallahti and host Ivan Puopolo recorded the day after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began: what the balance of forces actually looked like, why Russia advanced without air supremacy, whether SWIFT exclusion or targeted bank sanctions bite harder, and the Finnish NATO question at the moment it stopped being theoretical.
Recording hosted by Ivan Puopolo
Podcast · Puheenaihe 198 · 2022-01-21 · 46:56 · In Finnish
“Talous: Inflaatio ja fiskaalidominanssi (Sami Miettinen & Sauli Vilén) | Puheenaihe 198”
Leevi Leivo puts a listener's question about the price of pasta to Sami Miettinen and Inderes analyst Sauli Vilén, and the answer runs from supply bottlenecks to why the ECB cannot raise rates at all. The episode explains fiscal dominance, the asset price inflation nobody measures, why the risk-free rate has become a guaranteed loss, and who actually pays when inflation runs at five per cent.
Recording hosted by Leevi Leivo
Podcast · #rahapodi #270 · 2022-01-13 · 1:15:18 · In Finnish
“Markka takaisin! feat. Sami Miettinen | #rahapodi 270”
Nordnet's Rahapodi frames Finland as a hostage and asks whether the markka could actually be brought back. Sami Miettinen walks through the two legal doctrines that decide it, why the 2015 Greek near-exit closed the loophole, what the €67bn Target 2 surplus is worth in a divorce, and the parallel-currency design he would propose instead — before concluding that a euro nobody can raise rates in may be a gift rather than a trap.
Recording hosted by Martin Paasi & Miikka Luukkonen
Podcast · Niinku asia on #sinnu 50 · 2021-05-26 · 45:37 · In Finnish
“Neuvottelutaito, sosiaalisen tilanteen ja toisen ihmisen ymmärtäminen (Sami Miettinen) | #sinnu 50”
Psychologist Sinnu Savola interviews Sami Miettinen on the social side of negotiation: emotional regulation and the amygdala hijack, why personality models are useful even when crude, the alpha–beta–gamma roles in a negotiating team, why the seemingly weak role often gathers the most information, and where negotiation ends and manipulation begins.
Recording hosted by Sinnu Savola
Podcast · Puheenaihe 131 · 2020-11-24 · 1:15:08 · In Finnish
“EU: Vaihtoehto eurolle, ECU-2-kori (Juhana Vartiainen & Sami Miettinen) | Puheenaihe 131”
Sami Miettinen puts the ECU-2 proposal — reversing into the euro's own construction by reintroducing national currencies as weights in a basket — to MP and economist Juhana Vartiainen, who does not buy it. A genuine disagreement between two economists on whether Finland's problem is monetary or domestic, covering Target2, federation without transfers, fiscal dominance and what the ECB did to Greece in 2015.
Recording hosted by Puheenaihe
Podcast · Futucast #87 · 2020-06-01 · 57:23 · In Finnish
“#neuvottelija:n Sami Miettinen | Podcastien rooli yhteiskunnallisessa keskustelussa #87”
Sami Miettinen as a guest on Futucast, hosted by William von der Pahlen and Isak Rautio, on what unedited long-form conversation does to public debate: the Overton window, believability over credentials, identity politics as a way of disqualifying a speaker, and why institutions leave so few people free to talk.
Recording hosted by William von der Pahlen & Isak Rautio
Podcast · Finding Success Loyalistic · 2020-02-25 · 50:20 · In Finnish
“Kuinka miljoonakaupat neuvotellaan? Vieraana Sami Miettinen #Neuvottelija”
Sami Miettinen as a guest of Antti Pietilä on Loyalistic's Finding Success podcast, walking through the four-part framework from Uusi neuvotteluvalta — power, analysis, sociability and principle — and applying it to inbound sales, company sales as service design, negotiating team roles, and the moment a buyer's other departments wake up with agendas of their own.
Recording hosted by Antti Pietilä
Podcast · Puheenaihe 53 · 2020-02-03 · 1:18:16 · In Finnish
“Raha: Neuvottelutaidot ja omistajuus (Sami Miettinen & Tero Luoma) | Puheenaihe 53”
Rami Kurimo puts a negotiation author and an ownership author in the same room and asks whether you can negotiate your way to a million. What comes out is a two-part conversation: the four levers of negotiation and the team roles nobody bothers to agree before walking into the room, and then the distinction Luoma draws between an owner and an investor — the owner is the one who has to negotiate. Underneath both sits the same Finnish problem: too little private capital and too few owners.
Recording hosted by Rami Kurimo
Podcast · Puheenaihe 44 · 2019-10-31 · 57:53 · In Finnish
“Talous: Kansainvälinen rahajärjestelmä (Sam Laakso & Sami Miettinen) | Puheenaihe 44”
Sami Miettinen and Sam Laakso on Puheenaihe, recorded at the end of the longest and weakest US expansion on record: what money is, why low rates are a deliberate central-bank choice rather than a market outcome, why pegging a local currency one-to-one to an international settlement currency is the flaw shared by the gold standard and the euro, and how small crypto still was next to the euro system.
Recording hosted by Puheenaihe
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