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Espen Agdestein (born 7 February 1965) is the former manager of former Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen (until 2021). He is the brother of chess grandmaster and former coach of Magnus Carlsen, Simen Agdestein, and is himself a FIDE master, with a FIDE rating of 2372.[1]
Agdestein is one of the co-founders and partners of Idekapital, the largest Venture Capital Fund in Norway. Idekapital manages over NOK 500 million and invests in Norwegian startup companies in need of growth capital. He founded Idekapital together with Anders Brandt, Rune Holen and Kristian Øvsthus.[2][3]
He is part owner and sits in the board of directors in Magnus Carlsen's company Play Magnus,[4] where Anders Brandt is chairman and Kate Murphy is the CEO.[5] Espen said that "Play Magnus is Magnus Carlsen's tool to bring chess to the world".[6]
Agdestein was Carlsen's manager beginning in 2009, and according to an interview in the Norwegian newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad, the job as manager of Carlsen turned out to be more hectic than Agdestein first expected.[7]
He founded the magazine Art of Taste in 2001 which was later bought by Hjemmet Mortensen in 2006. Agdestein worked as a director at Hjemmet Mortensen from 2006-2009. He quit his job as a director to start working as Carlsen's manager.[8]
^"- Jeg trodde det skulle bli behagelig, men jeg har aldri hatt det så hektisk før". Aftenbladet. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
^"Sluttet som direktør, satset på 18-åring". Nettavisen. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
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Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 22 January 2014. "Agdestein klar". FK Haugesund (in Norwegian). 17 March 2014. Archived from the original...
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