Gustaf Alstromer

General Partner at YC
Gustaf Alstromer

About Gustaf

Gustaf Alstromer

Gustaf Alströmer is a General Partner at YC. He spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012. Prior to Airbnb, Gustaf was Head of Growth at Voxer, and before that, he was CEO & co-founder of Heysan, which was part of the YC W07 batch.

YC Stats

  • The YC companies Gustaf has worked are worth a combined $118 billion.
  • Gustaf has read more than 9,000 applications.
  • He's advised top YC alumni including: HigherMe, Human Interest, Mux, Outschool, BillionToOne, Rippling, Clipboard, Solugen, Faire, Retool, Newfront, Gem, Jasper.ai, CoinTracker, Groww, OpenSea, CaptivateIQ, Veriff, Titan, Ajaib, Papa, Deel, Prometheus, Vendr, and Pave.

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  • How to Get Your First Customers
  • Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups