I am an entrepreneur based in Stockholm, Sweden, with an MSc in Accounting, Valuation and Financial Management from the Stockholm School of Economics. I am currently setting up a new venture in Stockholm, launching in 2027. Before that I co-founded Vaktor, an AI governance startup letting Nordic firms use mainstream LLMs without sending sensitive data overseas.
Before Vaktor I ran operations at an art studio, and before that was the first business-side hire at Normain, a seed-stage AI startup for deep knowledge work, joining three founding engineers to run finance, marketing and operations through a period of 10x ARR growth. I wrote my bachelor's thesis on machine learning in finance and my master's thesis on impact investing credibility signals.
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# Lukas Uhrström
Stockholm.
## /now
Launching a new venture in Stockholm (stealth): setting up operations, contracts and finance ahead of a 2027 launch.
Earlier: co-founded Vaktor, an AI governance startup for Nordic firms handling sensitive data; first business-side hire at AI startup Normain through 10x ARR growth; ran operations at an art studio; launched a startup accelerator within a coworking hub in Cape Town.
3 degrees, 2 years of elite rowing, and 1 solo-cycling of Sweden.
Doing my best work on the commercial side of business building: who pays, for what, and why.
## /beliefs
### Decisions
- Two-way door decisions should be made instantly
- Judge a decision by what you knew when you made it
### Disagreement
- Leave your opponent a golden bridge
- Disagreements often stem from mixing understanding and opinion
- Knowing something means knowing its contrasts
- View an opposing view in its best possible light before criticizing it
### Mind
- Your past is a draft you are free to reframe
- Most bad thoughts can be disarmed by speaking or writing them
- When answers are cheap, questions are the scarce skill
### Living
- Hype is worth the potential disappointment
- Acquiring power and using it well beats small-time kindness
- A billionaire cannot appreciate life even twice as much as you
### Work and mastery
- In a bad film you can still be a good actor
- Being scared of failure means you have not failed enough
- Let your high energy self plan for your low energy self
### People
- The world runs on incentives
- Doing unto others can impede empathy, so weigh your differences
- Always look for favors with low cost to you and high return for others
## /open-source
GitHub: https://github.com/LukUhr
- calendar-days-engine · https://github.com/LukUhr/calendar-days-engine · Calendar site showing what to celebrate on a given day
- eraline · https://github.com/LukUhr/eraline · A single HTML file that turns a life into a timeline.
- vaktor-extension · https://github.com/LukUhr/vaktor-extension · Browser extension from Vaktor.
## /projects
- Firaidag.se · firaidag.se · What is worth celebrating today in Sweden
- Hildrun · hildrun.se · Fraud protection for the elderly, and the families watching out for them
- EraLine · eraline.app · A life as switchable timelines, all state in the URL
- LukasOS · lukasuhrstrom.com/os · A personal hub: film ratings, travel history, recipes and trip planning
## /watched (most recent)
The Boys · 8/10 · Apr 26
(796 rated in total)
## /listening (most recent)
The Dalmasca Estersand (from "Final Fantasy XII") · Hitoshi Sakimoto
## /reading
- Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference · Rutger Bregman
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you · Rob Fitzpatrick
- Dune Messiah (Dune, #2) · Frank Herbert
- The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) · J.R.R. Tolkien
## /been
38 countries, favorites to revisit are Italy and France: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Eswatini, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States
## /contact
- Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/16299891
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasuhrstrom/
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