Benjamin Bekken

Cofounder of Native

[Benjamin Bekken @BenjaminBekken]

Sickest. Launch. Day. Ever.

It's been an insane couple of months, but finally we launched.

Insanely proud of this team.

Native is live now! Go check it out ⭐

More to come!

[Benjamin Bekken @BenjaminBekken]

Thank you NYC Tech Week! 🇺🇸

Great events and met some great people: Thomas Walle (Unacast), Alex Meredith (FoundersBoost), Alexandra Lewin (Sleeping Bear Capital), and MJ Mehdi at Harvard Club. And so many more!

The energy in US is unmatched.

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Its a big honor to finally reveal that Elin Kristina Andersson will join us as our Customer Success Lead.

She's a former founder and previously worked with customer success at Riff, amplifying everything we're building here.

Glad to have you on the team Elin!

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Just shipped the smoothest onboarding in our history.

Erlend from Astar Labs built it from scratch. You can feel his industrial design background in every screen.

Great work Erlend 🔥

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1,000 businesses now run their content on Native!

We didn't think we'd hit this number this fast.

But we're just getting started.

Every business in the world deserves a marketing team. Native makes that possible.

More to come!🔥

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Went from uploading gaming videos on YouTube and producing beats on SoundCloud to building an AI company automating content for thousands of businesses.

6AM took a bet on me early. Today they're unveiling their rebrand and it's well deserved 🔥

LFG

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First time in Stockholm. YC event with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and Max Junestrand on one stage 🔥

Also got to visit the Legora office. Fastest YC company to hit $1B+, built right here in Stockholm.

The next big thing is coming from the Nordics. I'm all for it 🔥

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Had Stephan Von Perger from Anthropic visiting Oslo and Founders Hub 🔥

Anthropic is collaborating with FH, giving members some perks & events coming up.

Ended the night with a curated dinner with some of Oslo's best founders building with AI.

Oslo's founder scene is booming🔥

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We just hit 1M NOK ARR. The day before launch!

Yesterday we were at 500K.

Huge thanks to our 150 awesome customers.

Marketing used to be tedious. Now you have a fully fledged agentic system.

The future of marketing is now.

Tomorrow we launch! 🚀

LFG🔥

[Benjamin Bekken @BenjaminBekken]

"Westerlin capitalizes on fear" 🤯

That was the headline when my cofounder Oskar Westerlin went on NRK Dagsnytt 18.

Surreal to see our message on national TV.

He nailed it. But the point remains simple:

Start using AI today. The productivity gains are massive.

LFG 🔥

[Benjamin Bekken @BenjaminBekken]

"Westerlin capitalizes on fear" 🤯

That was the headline when my cofounder Oskar Westerlin went on NRK Dagsnytt 18.

Surreal to see our message on national TV.

He nailed it. But the point remains simple:

Start using AI today. The productivity gains are massive.

LFG 🔥

[Benjamin Bekken @BenjaminBekken]

PhD in Biophysics turned Growth Engineer 🤯

Last week Avra helped us fine-tune our AI models.

From scaling Riff to Series A to deep tech research. His knowledge is absolutely insane.

The output quality is now next level.

Super grateful for the help! 🔥

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Last week we worked with the amazing Hanne Brynildsrud from Techfolk🔥

Developer & food vlogger.

She helped us develop our new onboarding. The UX feels fantastic.

We're inviting more users from the waitlist now.

Thanks Hanne!

Let us know how it feels 🤩

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Trygve from Astar is a machine.

Writing his master's but flew down to Oslo twice this week to help us get launch-ready.

We've been grinding on context engineering and the quality is now insane.

I'm mindblown by the output.

Can't wait to show you.

LFG🔥

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@yanabana Helped a lot! Thanks for sharing Yana 🤩

[Yana Welinder @yanabana]

Today is the YC application deadline.

If I were applying today, here’s how I’d use AI to make my @ycombinator application 1000× better in 5 mins.

[Benjamin Bekken @BenjaminBekken]

Set a challenge to meet interesting people & take selfies. 2025 delivered.

Met so many builders creating cool shit. From AI vibe coding to YC founders.

Silicon Valhalla has world-class talent. Excited to take the Nordic ecosystem to the next level in 2026!

LFG 👊

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What a year for @WepostNO 🚀

Launched in Jan. Retention was low. So we bet everything on employee branding.

The result was millions of impressions and top investors onboard.

From "AI tool" to a new distribution channel.

2026, we reimagine it all.

Merry Christmas from us!🎄

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@aftermagics https://t.co/2KKuFjouZE

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@lennysan @ElenaVerna @Lovable Always the best learnings from episodes with her, glad its a new record with 5!!🔥