Data & AI/ML Entrepreneur | Early Stage Investor

Over a decade of experience within AI/ML and Data Infrastructure as a founder, operator and investor.Passionate about bringing new and paradigm-shifting technologies to market. This passion has led me to a over decade-long entrepreneurial career focused on emerging software industries and global markets - from AI &amp; Data Infrastructure startups and venture capital funds to Fortune 500 technology leaders such as Google. Raised +$50M in early-stage funding from top VCs as a founder and operator. A big believer in people, data, design and telling a story. Passionate about building new products with the right GTM, messaging and growing teams that do so.Deep understanding of the venture capital, private equity, SaaS, cloud, data and AI ecosystems with solid global relationships at all levels.Frequent keynote speaker on topics around data, AI, startups and venture capital. Considered as one of the top AI &amp; data thought leaders in the Nordics.

Oliver Molander

The Anthropic team wrote all of Cowork (their newly launched non-technical version of Claude Code) using Claude Code 👇 

And they built it in 1.5 weeks (confirmed by Felix Rieseberg).

Holy sh*t.

Things are changing fast.

At the same time, I see founders struggling to make a simple update to their website in 1.5 weeks.

Anthropic launched an entirely new product in that time.

And as Felix noted, they’re releasing Cowork early. It has rough edges. But figuring out what to build is increasingly the hardest part of software engineering - and they believe getting feedback early and hearing what users actually need is how you build something truly good.

And this is a company valued at close to $0.5 trillion, with thousands of employees.

Founders, you have no excuse anymore.

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype.

There’s a saying that the future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed.

I still see plenty of developers insisting that AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone.

But I’m also starting to see the opposite:

People who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good that it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence.

If you haven’t seriously tested AI coding tools in the last year, try them again. 

Don’t assume anything.

You’ll be surprised.

#artificialintelligence

I see too many brilliant technical founders in Europe getting stuck in what I call intellectual procrastination.

They debate in their own minds what to do, weighing different outcomes - instead of just doing.

This is why high-agency founders succeed. They start doing, fail, learn, and repeat.

As Andrej Karpathy puts it:

Agency > Intelligence

Karpathy has said he intuitively had this wrong for decades, shaped by a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence - media narratives, entertainment, obsession with IQ, etc.

Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce.

Are you hiring for agency?

Are we educating for agency?

Are you acting as if you had 10× agency?

The best thing about high agency is that it compounds.

This is something organizations like YC are especially good at: pushing founders out into action.

There’s a saying in Finnish, “Liike on lääke”, which roughly translates to “Motion is the cure.”

The best founders get anxious when there’s no motion - when nothing is happening or being tested and validated.

For too long, European cities like Stockholm - despite an incredible concentration of talent - have been held back by societal expectations: first get a master’s degree, then gain experience at a big company, and only then maybe think about building something. 

But the truth is, you don’t need permission - you can just do things.

The tides are turning fast, though.

Now is the time of the high agency builder.

#artificialintelligence

One of the biggest myths right now that needs to be busted is that Claude Code is only for coding.

It can be used for so much more.

As my friend Antoine Moyroud recently said, we need to stop treating AI like a chatbot.

The gap between power users of AI and casual chat users is going to widen very fast. Start experimenting with Claude Code now.

Non-technical people shouldn’t be afraid of the CLI.

You can already leverage Claude Code for almost any kind of knowledge work:

Sales, marketing, growth, fundraising, law, taxes - you can become surprisingly competent quickly.

It’s hard to overstate how big the gap will be between people who understand how massive this shift is and those who don’t.

As Greg Isenberg put it:

You’re just a few .md files away from outperforming 99% of people on this planet.

2026 is the year Claude Code grows beyond coding.

#artificialintelligence

Probably not a biggie, but the creator of Node.js just admitted that the era of humans writing code is over.

#artificialintelligence

Here's a shout-out to all young technical operators from the Nordics working at the frontier in leading AI companies - you embody the future.

Gabriel Petersson 
Erik Kaunismäki 
Jonatan von Martens 
emil fagerholm 
Emil Ahlbäck 
Minette Kaunismäki 
Christian Ryan 
Matheus Mendes 
Eric Zakariasson
Jonathan Granskog

...and many more that I've missed.

The future is in the youth.

#artificialintelligence

Tandem Diabetes Care

Leads the team responsible for the definition, planning, implementation, management, and delivery of insights for new and ongoing customer feedback efforts.  Responsible for partnering with the business to establish and maintain a holistic, cross-functional Customer Feedback strategic plan. Works closely with the organization to thoroughly understand business needs for customer feedback, proactively identifies opportunities, determines appropriate solutions, and prioritizes deliverables in alignment with corporate strategic initiatives.

Manager, Customer Feedback

Oversees the design, plans, execution, analysis and synthesis of behavioral sciences studies that assess concepts, customer experience, real world product and/or services use, customer acceptance and general unmet needs in the diabetes and related field.  

Leading and central ongoing role in observational studies and other psychosocial patient reported outcomes research.​

Initiates research in measuring the effectiveness of early stage product and services concepts and prototypes. ​

Manager, Behavioral Sciences Services

Senior Behavioral Scientist

Analyzes trends, opportunities, and challenges to develop innovative strategies and programs that will drive new customer acquisition and retention by utilizing customer databases of demographic, behavioral, and financial data.

Designs, plans, executes and analyzes behavioral research studies that assess customer experience, psychosocial outcomes, post market product use, market potential, product/service design, customer acceptance and general unmet needs in the diabetes and related field. 

Leads the execution of all logistical aspects of online survey research initiatives, including survey research design and methodology, managing Qualtrics- the customer experience survey software platform, engineering technical requirements, survey distribution and data collection, and subsequent data analysis and research reports. Works with key stakeholders to design and execute survey research and dashboards with live and actionable insights.

Behavioral Scientist

Strategy and Market Research Analyst

Strategy & Market Research Analyst Intern

Mindful Knotting

Owner and Designer

Nike

Brand Ambassador

San Francisco State University

Laboratory Manager: Social Perception, Attitudes, and Mental Simulation Lab

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Intermediate Psychological Statistics

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Course: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior

San Diego State University

Laboratory Coordinator: Threat, Emotions, and Stereotyping Laboratory 

Teaching Assistant, Course: Social Psychology

Research Assistant: Threat, Emotions, and Stereotyping Laboratory 

Behavioral Scientist that has 10 years of experience in research and analysis, with 7+ years in the medical device industry researching and delivering actionable customer insights to make data driven decisions, improve CX and maximize performance of internal customer operations. Uses the combination of my technical skills, behavioral research design, and customer journey management to design, measure, and provide actionable customer insights that help improve business KPIs and bottom line results. 

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