Stories of the week. Kristi Saare presented a challenge, an interview with Kaja Kallas and a big real estate overview of Tallinn

But there were other exciting stories.

Financial freedom is not a miracle that you wake up in the morning and you are rich. If we didn’t have to give up anything on this journey, most of us would be financially free, said Kristi Saare, a well-known investor at the Investment Festival, who presented a big challenge to the audience from the stage.

Kallas’ last interview

This week, now ex-prime minister Kaja Kallas gave a resignation interview to Äripää. Kaja Kallas, who draws the line for the office of prime minister, does not leave notes in the drawer for the future head of government, Kristen Michal. “His mentor is Andrus Ansip, I don’t think he will ask me for any advice,” he said.

Real estate card for Tallinners

Äripäev put on the map the transactions made with apartments in Tallinn in the last ten years and compared how the popularity and price level of the settlements have changed.

The sauna business became hot

Gunnar Paalman, who is engaged in the production of barrel saunas and hot tubs in the Kanep municipality of Põlva county, has pissed off his business partners demanding payment of debts. It seems to them that a business that has reached the brink of bankruptcy is already going on in another business entity.

Gabriel Aimil, to whose company the Paalmani sauna company was in debt, had had enough of the promises and delays and is demanding the bankruptcy of Eco Oil. “It’s good if something happens at all, but the point is in principle. That’s not how it’s done. You can’t do that in the south, you can do it in Tallinn, you can do it in Narva. Southern Estonia is so small that everyone here knows everyone,” said Aim.

Decision-makers also decide by gut feeling

This week, Äripää also published the Top of Decision Makers, where you can find those who have made important decisions in the economic life of Estonia for decades, but several names from the back rows of the table have risen to the top of the line.

If, like last year, Enn Kunila is in first place, this year big entrepreneur Ain Hanschmidt took second place. Regarding making important decisions, Hanschmidt said that the most important thing is to have as much information as possible.

“I do a lot by gut feeling. But this gut feeling means that it contains 50-60 percent information. Then you can start making decisions based on experience and intuition,” he said.

Also listen to the program summarizing the week “Äripäev etris”: