Gustaf Alströmer
11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2023 by Gustaf Alströmer · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Mar 2, 2023
Alströmer: Outlier successful startup ideas often do not make logical sense
“Those kind of ideas, like the ones that end up succeeding often don't make sense to people. And there's something, there's some reason that they, that no one has done this before, because they're just not natural next step of the world.”
Mar 2, 2023
Alströmer: Startups are equally hard whether they succeed or fail
“Startups are hard. They're much harder than a normal job. Like equally hard if they're successful or failure, right? They're not actually, there's no middle way where like, oh, my company is doing great so I can chill. That's not, doesn't work that way either.”
Mar 2, 2023
Alströmer: The best way to discover customer pain is watching workflows
“So the best thing I've learned about how to discover the pain is to watch people, have them screen share, have them walk, walk you through their daily workflow about the area where you're doing some discovery. That is the best thing.”
Mar 2, 2023 positive
Alströmer: Hard tech builds stronger legacies than software despite worse business models
“Because they're much harder to do, but when you succeed, they're much more tangible. And you can be like, I like have a tiny little piece in like this space rocket or this airplane that we funded or the satellite that's above us. And I really think that that's…”
Mar 2, 2023 positive
Mar 2, 2023 positive
Alströmer: Knowing YC Partners Does Not Affect Application Outcomes
“To apply to AC, you don't need to know any of us. You don't need to reach out to us. It doesn't make Any specific difference? The principles of YC is that you should be able to get, become an insider in YC in Silicon Valley without knowing anybody. And that's …”
Mar 2, 2023 positive
Alströmer: Most of Airbnb's first 10 to 15 PMs were former founders
“Like most startups don't have most of the PMs being former founders, but that I believe that was the case for the first like 10 or 12 or 15 PMs that there'd be. A lot of us were former founders. And I think that that made a big difference for how you make deci…”
Mar 2, 2023
Mar 2, 2023
Alströmer: Founders Must Interview 25 to 50 Prospective Customers
“Like they think they might have to talk to five, but I think you have to talk to like, 25 to 50. That means you have to reach out to a lot more to be able to get to people that are potentially early adopters. And those ones you talk to are also the ones that b…”
Mar 2, 2023
Alströmer confirms Swedish families historically did not feed visiting children dinner
“It's absolutely true. I actually gave an unconference talk about this topic. And the conference talk was all of the strange things that Swedish people do and why. And if it would summarize it like, yes, we do that. I actually experienced that. I went to a frie…”
Mar 2, 2023
Alströmer: Inactive Signups Reflect Indifference, Allowing Founders Second Chances
“The worst thing that can happen to startup is not that people hate what you're doing. It's that they're completely indifferent to what you're doing. So not that, not the worst thing, but the most common thing that happens is people just indifferent, but it doe…”