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Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02:11 Max Junestrand Uh, I still speak with Gustav every quarter, uh, but all the other are either board observers or board of directors, so that, 2 times in the scene

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) Jan 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:40 Harry Stebbings You know, my, my dear friend is the CEO of Spotify, Gustav Soderstrom, and he says, the details are not the details. 2 times in the scene

Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings Two of my dear friends, Alex Nordstrom and Gustav Soderstrom, who've just become the two co-CEOs of Spotify, um, in a really interesting new structure, obviously, um, replacing Daniel.

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 Jul 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:32 Harry Stebbings Before we actually do that testing and letting users guide us, I had Gustav from Spotify on the show, and he said, talk is cheap, and so we should do more of it.

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 Jun 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:07 Harry Stebbings I am just jumping around to be fair, but my favorite dude on product is Gustav Soderstrom from Spotify.

Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:18 Harry Stebbings And it reminds me of Gustav Soderstrom from Spotify, who always told me the details are not the details, they are the product.

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 May 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:31 Harry Stebbings It's funny, Gustav Soderstrom from Spotify, who I think is brilliant, he always says the details are not the details, they are the product.

Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:08 Harry Stebbings One thing I think about often is Gustav at Spotify, who's a dear friend and one of the best product leaders in the world, I think, um, and he always says that torque is cheap. 2 times in the scene

Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:43 Harry Stebbings You know, I had Belsky and Gustav on the show, and they said that we will kind of measure the quality of a candidate by the quality of their prompts.

Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:37 Harry Stebbings Gustav from Spotify, who I think is one of the best CPOs in the world, he always says, talk is cheap, so we should do more of it. 2 times in the scene

Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:13 Harry Stebbings I was thinking to Gustav at Spotify, who's the CPO of Spotify, and he says, you know, talk is cheap, so we should do a lot more of it, and it's,

Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:25 Harry Stebbings Gustav at Spotify, who I love, uh, and he's right, and I'm wrong on this, just to be very clear, but he always says talk is cheap, and so he should do more of it when it comes to, like, strategic direction, where to go, and kind of,

Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 13, 2024 · 4 mentions

Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:53 Harry Stebbings I had Gustav, the CPO of Spotify on the show, and he said, you know, talk is cheap, so we should do a lot more of it.

Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 19, 2024 · 1 mention

Janie Lee: Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs | E1165 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:03 Harry Stebbings It's interesting, one of my great friends is Gustav Soderstrom, he's the CPO at Spotify, and he said that talk is cheap, and so we should do more of it. 2 times in the scene

Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 10, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:59 Harry Stebbings Do you think, so it was Gustav at Spotify, I know we have this schedule, we'll also get to it. 3 times in the scene

Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:55 Harry Stebbings And then I think to Gustav Soderstrom, who's the CPO at Spotify, who said on the show, talk is cheap, so we should do more of it.

David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 1, 2023 · 1 mention

Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:55 Harry Stebbings If we think about, like, speed, efficiency, systematization, when we're doing product discussions, Gustav, the CPO at Spotify, said on the show, talk is cheap, and so we should do more of it.
  • ▶ 8:45 Harry Stebbings You know, again, Gustav at Spotify, he was contrarian. 4 times in the scene

Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:57 Harry Stebbings It's so funny, one of my great friends is Gustav Soderstrom, who's a CPA at Spotify, and he says, details are not details, they are the product.

Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 19, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings It's funny, one of my friends is Gustav Soderstrom, who's the CPO at Spotify, and he says, talk is cheap,

Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:25 Harry Stebbings I had Gustav Soders from the CPU at Spotify on the show recently, and he said, talk is cheap,

Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:19 Harry Stebbings I have Gustav, the CPO at Spotify on the show, and he said, talk is cheap, so we should do more of it, um, which I thought was quite an interesting statement.

Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 29, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:32 Jag Duggal Yeah, I, you know, I've heard you ask this question of a number of product leaders over, over the last year or so, from Gustav to Kevin Weil and others, um, and I've liked their answers.
  • ▶ 1:01:20 Jag Duggal You know, you had an, uh, you had Gustav on, I don't know exactly when, but fairly recently, once again, and, um, 4 times in the scene

Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 20, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Harry Stebbings As we just said, I've stalked you for, for many, many weeks now with, with references from Gustav, from Daniel, from so many others.
  • ▶ 28:19 Harry Stebbings You know, I think Gustav before said on the show with me, you know, about disagree and commit.
  • ▶ 39:05 Barry McCarthy It's different from what Barry likes and Gustav likes and Daniel likes.

Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 7, 2022 · 4 mentions

Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 9, 2022 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Harry Stebbings I've wanted to do this ever since we sat by a pool in Greece, and I heard the wisdom of you and Gustav, and so thank you so much for joining me today. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:36 Harry Stebbings Gustav said on the show recently, something which I still disagree with, but Gustav's way smarter than me. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:05 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of component to component and that granularity, Gustav, um, our mutual friend, obviously at Spotify, has said before, details are not details, they are the product. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:55 Hugo Barra Uh, you know, it's why, you know, I love people like, you know, Gustav, who we talked about earlier, you know, who's an absolute product nerd. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:42 Harry Stebbings I could talk to you all day, Hugo, which is kind of what we did by the pool with Gustav, to be honest, but, um, uh, I want to move into a quick fire round. 4 times in the scene

Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 7, 2022 · 1 mention

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 Nov 22, 2021 · 2 mentions

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 Mar 8, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings Woody at TCV, Christina Stenbeck, Shaq, Shashir at Coda, Bill Gurley, Alex Nordstrom, and Gustav Soderstrom at Spotify.
  • ▶ 6:21 Harry Stebbings So if we start on the element of, you know, your leadership style, I spoke to many, many people that we both know, but in particular, it was Gustav in particular who said that when it comes to delegation, there's something really… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:22 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Gustav before the show, and he said that another of your kind of incredible traits is your patience. 3 times in the scene
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