Simo J. Lahtinen
Kapteeni
Simo J. Lahtinen lives in Boston and works at Kapteeni, helping Finnish firms sell into the United States. He lives, works and pays tax there, so the Negotiator episodes are ground reports rather than Helsinki readings of American headlines. In episode 355 he talks through Trump-era politics and trade: late-night television and cancel culture, what unrest in Los Angeles and Boston actually looked like on the street, the stack of federal, state and local power, tariffs as a negotiating club, and why US customers still have purchasing power when Finnish ones do not. Kapteeni’s team watches the tariff field daily; he has taken a Finnish machine maker to Kentucky. In episode 404 he returns with Ali Omar for the 2026 midterms and the split inside MAGA. He is explicit about the product: closing deals, not political consultancy.
Topics: Geopolitics · Free Speech & Society · Finnish Economy & Policy · AI & Enterprise Tech
Latest English episode: MAGA Fracture Thiel vs Fuentes | Simo J. Lahtinen Ali Omar | Negotiator 404
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