MCJ AMA: Gustaf Alströmer - Y Combinator
Join us in the MCJ Community Slack for a 24 hour 'Ask Me Anything' with Gustaf Alströmer, Group Partner at Y Combinator.
Our next MCJ Ask-Me-Anything is with Gustaf Alströmer, Group Partner at Y Combinator.
Back in December, Gustaf and David Rusenko published a ‘Request for Startups: Climate Tech’, calling for startups working across the following top-level buckets; Energy Related, Science Required, Climate Adaptation, Green Fintech and Carbon Accounting & Offsets. Applications for the YC’s Summer 2023 funding cycle close on 7th April.
Let’s meet our guest…
Meet Gustaf: Gustaf is Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he has worked with over 600 startups, and former Product Lead of Growth at Airbnb, starting Airbnb’s original growth team. Prior to Airbnb, he led Growth at Voxer and was the Co-Founder and CEO of Heysan (YC W07), which was acquired by Good Technology in 2009.
MCJ Podcast: Listen to Gustaf’s episode with Jason here - our 10th episode ever on the My Climate Journey podcast.
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Our AMA with Gustaf will start on Wednesday 5th April at 9am PST - 12pm EST - 5pm GMT and will run asynchronously in the MCJ AMA slack channel for 24 hours.
You can dig in further to Gustaf’s work via:
Lenny’s Podcast: Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer
Gustaf’s deep dive on ‘How to Get Your First Customers’ for YC Startup School
Gustaf’s LinkedIn
In Gustaf’s episode with Jason, they covered:
Gustaf’s background in consumer tech working at AirBnB and Voxer
Where Gustaf spends most of his time at YC
The background and reason for YC’s carbon removal focused Request for Startups (RFS)
Why YC decided to focus specifically on carbon removal
Gustaf’s view on the similarities and differences between “traditional” YC companies vs climate focused companies
A few of the climate focused companies YC has invested in
What YC looks for in climate focused companies
Set your reminders, and get your questions ready! You can ask Gustaf anything!
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