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.

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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

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