Biography|Gustav Söderström — The Borggård Where He Took an Electrical Engineering Master
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Biography|Gustav Söderström — The Borggård Where He Took an Electrical Engineering Master
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People treat Spotify's product chief as a Valley import.
The degree was taken on this courtyard.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology opened its main building on Valhallavägen in 1917, to a design by Erik Lallerstedt.
The Borggård is the brick court a visitor still walks into from Drottning Kristinas väg.
The public visitor address today is Drottning Kristinas väg 4, on the same historic campus.
Gustav Söderström finished a Master of Science in electrical engineering and data communications here.
KTH's own alumni citation later said the master's thesis supplied the technique behind Kenet Works, the mobile-community company he founded in Stockholm in 2003 with six co-founders.
He did that thesis work at TeliaSonera in 2001 and 2002, after the first internet crash, when engineering jobs in the city were scarce.
Ny Teknik later called Kenet Works a KTH company when Yahoo bought it in 2006.
Reuters listed the same KTH master when Spotify named him co-chief executive in 2025.
The lecture halls behind these arcades are where the civilingenjör path still runs.
The campus is public.
Söderström is a living executive.
The pin is the historic court, not a private room.
Photo: Oscar Franzén, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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