How FotMob App Went From A Honeymoon Idea To 20 Million Monthly Users
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Christer Nordvik, the CEO of FotMob, launched the app in 2004. Over two decades, the platform has notched more than 100 million downloads. FotMob Golden rays of sunlight warmed his face as he lounged in a beachside shack in Thailand. Christer Nordvik was on his honeymoon with his wife, Linda. It was the perfect tropical escape. But after a week, the sound of the seawaves had lost its charm, leaving Nordvik dreaming not of sunsets, but scorelines. “I wanted to follow my local team SK Brann,” he recalls. “But it was impossible.” It was 2004. Mobile phones were around, but the internet was patchy at best. Keeping up with live scores, especially from 5,000 miles away, was more fantasy than reality. But for Nordvik, it was a challenge he was ready to accept. After returning home to Bergen on Norway’s southwestern coast, he teamed up with his brother Tommy to create the first version of FotMob – now one of the world’s leading football platforms with more than 20 million monthly active users. Christer Nordvik and his wife, Linda, during their honeymoon in Thailand in 2004. Christer Nordvik From live scores and stats to player ratings and personalized insights, FotMob has become a go-to for fans of the world’s most popular sport. A father of four, Nordvik worked part-time on the app for nine years, spending his evenings and weekends coding. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a shoutout from The New York Times, which called FotMob the go-to Android app for “simple scores and stats”, helped the platform welcome a flurry of new users. Three years on from that, Nordvik decided to go full-time with his venture. But it wasn’t until 2022 that the app “really took off”, as the Norwegian describes. “We went from nine million users to…
