Gustav Söderström
24 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2022 by Gustav Söderström · said 81 times in 35 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (67), Jag Duggal (5), Max Junestrand (2), Hugo Barra (2), Eugene Wei (2), Cliff Weitzman (2), Barry McCarthy (1)
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2026 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
- Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Janie Lee: Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs | E1165 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 19 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 24 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
- 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
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Everything said about Gustav Söderström, oldest first
Oct 13, 2022 neutral
Oct 13, 2022 bullish
Söderström: Audio TAM will match social media at 2-3 billion plus users
“I think it is at least as large as social networking, you know, two, three billion plus. The way I think about it is I think music and actually podcasting is a Sort of a core human behavior like communication. And that means that the sort of time in, in, you k…”
Oct 13, 2022 positive
Oct 13, 2022
Söderström: Test new product paradigms on new users to bypass habit bias
“One is you separate new users from existing users. You're going to get very different metrics. Existing users have a habit. Your metrics may go down for a feature, and then if you tried on new users and never had that habit, you may see that if you're not taug…”
Oct 13, 2022 positive
Söderström: Spotify drastically rebuilt its app to prioritize machine learning recommendations
“So we actually made a bet on the shift from curation to recommendation or social media to recommendation media. Four or five years ago and rebuilt the application quite drastically. And today we, I would say we are a recommendations based company much more tha…”
Oct 13, 2022
Söderström: Companies Must Early-Accept Unstoppable Macro Shifts and Reposition
“What you should do instead of fighting is obviously to rethink your position, try to reposition yourself so that instead of having this wind blow in your face and slowing you down, you somehow get it at your back. And, you know, I've been fortunate enough to b…”
Oct 13, 2022 negative
Söderström: Overly polite employees are Spotify's biggest organizational hurdle
“Because they're often in Spotify because they're too nice. That's actually a bigger problem than being, than people being too aggressive. In other companies, you may have the opposite, that if it's unclear, people are gonna power grab. I've seen the opposite. …”
Oct 13, 2022 positive
Söderström: Evaluating decisions across three distinct models reduces strategic error
“One way to try to avoid it that, you know, comes from sort of Berkshire Hathaway and how they think about the world is you should use at least three models with different dimensions. If they all agree, chances that you're completely wrong are much lower.”
Oct 13, 2022 neutral
Oct 13, 2022 positive
Söderström: Spotify R&D is structured to feel built by one developer
“I've chosen to do the complete opposite in my organization, because even if I have a really big organization with thousands of people, at the end of the day, it's just one user who is going to use this application. They're not going to care if it was, you know…”
Oct 13, 2022 negative
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Dec 20, 2023 positive
Dec 20, 2023
Dec 20, 2023 neutral
Söderström: AI has not yet enabled new business models beyond sustaining innovation
“I actually think that in general, you know, we've seen the first wave of AI now where the technology is very impressive. It's starting to do useful things. But we still, usually the big changes come when that technology enables a new business model somehow. An…”
Dec 20, 2023 bearish
Söderström: Spotify will not build general frontier AI models to compete
“So that's why, you know, there's no point in trying to compete with them for us because we don't even have the same goal. So we're trying to build exactly the things that we don't think they will build. And we would buy the things that they will build or someo…”
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
Söderström: Proprietary user data will matter more long term than model size
“My hunch would be though that In the longer term, you're going to be able to do most of what you want with reasonable size models and like having a much bigger model doesn't have that much. So I would still bet that having lots of user data and lots of high fi…”
Dec 20, 2023
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
Söderström: Enterprise AI adoption will outpace the historical shift to cloud
“But I also agree with Scott that I think it's going to go much faster than moving to cloud. It wasn't really possible. I know we actually were on-prem companies that old. It wasn't possible to just also be on the cloud and try a little bit. It was incredibly h…”
Dec 20, 2023
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
Söderström: Spotify's streaming business model took Apple eight years to copy
“I think for Spotify, for example, when we started, it was the business model of streaming. That was the disruptive thing. The technology was you know, a bit of peer to peer and stuff, but it was a business model that took Apple eight years of collateral damage…”