Mattias Miksche

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A Swedish entrepreneur who recruited Daniel Ek to help build and scale Stardoll.


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10/3/2026, 6:50:56 AM

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10/3/2026, 6:55:49 AM

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10/3/2026, 6:55:49 AM

Summary

Mattias Miksche is recognized for his role as the CEO of Stardoll AB, a company that acquired the social networking and blogging website Piczo in March 2009. Following this acquisition, Miksche and his Stardoll team led the operations of Piczo. Earlier in his career, Miksche was involved in optimizing Stardoll alongside Daniel Ek, a venture that received support from Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Ek later reflected on this period when discussing his entrepreneurial journey on the All-In Podcast. Piczo, originally founded in 2003, was a platform for teens to create free, advertising-supported websites with various content options, and it was later acquired by Posh Media Group in September 2012 before shutting down in November 2012. A new iteration of the Piczo website was launched in 2026, suggesting a potential revival of the service.

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    Piczo

    Piczo was a social networking and blogging website for teens. It was founded in 2003 by Jim Conning in San Francisco, California. Early investors included Catamount, Sierra Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Mangrove Capital Partners. In March 2009, Piczo was acquired by Stardoll (Stardoll AB with CEO Mattias Miksche). After the acquisition Piczo was led by Stardoll's CEO Mattias Miksche and his Stardoll team. In September 2012, Piczo.com was acquired by Posh Media Group (PMGcom Publishing AB with CEO Christofer Båge). In November 2012, Piczo.com shut down. Their eponymous service, also called Piczo (Piczo.com), was an online photo website builder and community, which was for the generation of free advertising-supported websites. Launched in 2005 Piczo allowed users to add images, text, guestbooks, message boxes, videos, music and other content to their site using plain text and HTML. Partners included YouTube, VideoEgg, Photobucket, Flock, Yahoo & PollDaddy. When it began, the company's focus was individual web-page design, and blogs were not included as a feature. In addition to the website development aspect of the site, Piczo once had a User Generated Content repository (the Piczo Zone) where users can browse, post, and consume content that they or others have used on their site. Later on, Piczo remodelled the entire site, and this along with many other features were no longer available. One of the features that stayed is "The Board" where Piczo informs users about HTML and Internet safety, though most pages are designed for the old Piczo. In August 2010 Piczo announced "Piczo Plus", a feature that allowed users to buy an "ad-free" site. As of 2026, a new Piczo website was launched, hinting at a possible revival of the service. The current home page allows to request access via email, and to enter an access code for entry.

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