Gustav Alströmer

“Most people, when you see a new launch or a new thing, and it wasn't that great, just don't have time to care.”

“One of them is to send an investor updates every month. Because accountability really matters. Having someone else looking, looking at this every month actually forces you to be more accountable.”

“Once you hit Series B, the companies that don't make it are the ones that don't actually understand The quality of their revenue. And the people that have high quality revenue, they'll, they'll make it.”

“And the second thing is to have two bank accounts and you put half of the money in the other one, pretend like you don't have it. And then like you look at your bank account and be like, oh, I actually only have half the money that I raised.”

“Companies win early stage by being much better at customer support than big companies. So you have to be much better at customer support than big companies.”

“Normally I say people don't wait, like wait until you have like maybe 14 or 12 months left and do your first attempt at fundraising or like test the waters maybe. And if it doesn't go well, you have another two shots actually. And then you can change things an…”

“When that model came out, a lot of companies that were building, say internal tools were like suddenly working, and they weren't really working before.”

“And if I was to say a CSA investor, and that would mean one of these companies, I actually care more about the trajectory of the automation rate than the overall revenue.”

“We have multiple Weiss companies who say we want to be a billion dollar, 10 person company, and we have six slots left.”

“At Airbnb we had this metric, which was percent of technical people that work at the company, and the reason we had the metric is, at some point you have too many non-technical people all they do is request things from the technical people, and then you can't …”

“Hiring is not a success metric at all. It's sort of like a way to not go under or have a functioning company fail.”

“A lot of founders try to think of, like, segment before qualification, and I think sometimes Just the right person is more important as long as they are empowered.”

“It's much better when you're pivoting to have a range of different ideas exploring. So, sort of like, you can find conviction around something and be fine with throwing out a few of them.”

“Like, I have a great idea is not something that founders would have great ideas say generally.”

“If you have a lot of time to think about this question, it's probably too early. If this is something that comes to mind every day for you, it's probably too early because It's the right time to hire when, like, things are so busy that you can't even find a sl…”