Benjamin Bekken

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!

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 🔥

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🔥

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🔥

"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 🔥

"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 🔥

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! 🔥

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 🤩

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🔥

@yanatweets Helped a lot! Thanks for sharing Yana 🤩

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.

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 👊

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!🎄

@aftermagics youtu.be/54WW70hXRYg?si…

Yo guys, its sunday✨️. Let’s see what you all created this week👇🏼.

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

My biggest takeaways from @ElenaVerna (Head of Growth at @Lovable): 1. In AI, you now need to find product-market fit every three months. Product-market fit used to mean: build something people want, then scale it for years. In AI, the underlying technology changes so fast—and customer expectations with it—that you’re constantly re-earning that fit. Even at $200M ARR. 2. The growth playbook has fundamentally changed for AI companies. Elena has led growth at Miro, Dropbox, and Amplitude and advised dozens more companies on growth. At Lovable, she says only 30% to 40% of what she learned in 20 years still applies. 3. At Lovable, growth is driven mostly through new features, not optimizing funnels. At the fastest-growing company in history, optimization drives about 5% of their growth. The other 95% comes from launching new features and products. Small tweaks don’t move the needle when everything is changing. 4. Ship constantly, and talk about it. Lovable’s main growth and retention strategy: ship features fast enough that customers feel the product is always alive. Engineers announce their own updates. The founder tweets progress daily. This keeps users curious—and keeps competitors scrambling. 5. Give your product away like candy. AI products are expensive to run, so most companies gate them behind paywalls. Lovable does the opposite: they fund hackathons, sponsor events, and hand out free credits. They treat this spending as marketing, not cost—and it compounds through word of mouth. 6. Influencer marketing outperforms paid ads by 10x. Lovable found that short videos showing what the product can do spread faster and convert better than traditional paid advertising. Showing beats telling. 7. “Minimum viable product” is dead. Elena describes the new minimum bar as “minimum lovable product.” If the experience doesn’t delight people, they won’t tell anyone. And word of mouth is your primary engine. 8. Community isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a key lever for growth. Lovable’s Discord has hundreds of thousands of members helping each other. This amplifies word of mouth, drives retention, and makes customers feel like insiders. Building the product alone isn’t enough anymore—you’re building a world. 9. Hire people who create clarity from chaos. Fast-moving AI companies don’t have neat job descriptions or stable roadmaps. Elena looks for high-agency people who thrive in mess, including new graduates who are AI-native and former founders who know how to operate without instructions. 10. You can work at one of the fastest-growing companies in history and still see your kids. Elena wakes at 6 a.m. Stockholm time, protects her gym and family hours, and refuses to treat burnout as a badge of honor. Her point: if you set boundaries, the work will fill the available time—not all the time.

@felixhhaas Congratz Felix!🙌🏻 u guys keep killing it

Announcing our $330M Series B 🚀 This has been, without question, the wildest ride I’ve ever been on. What excites me every single day are the people building with Lovable. It all started with individuals shipping small tools. Today, some of the world’s largest enterprises use Lovable to build apps with their own data. Those apps have received 500M+ visits in the last 6 months alone. None of this happens without the team. The 120 incredibly talented people I get to work with every single day. Many moved across the world to help build a generational company from Europe. They’re the reason Lovable is trusted by millions and I couldn't be more excited to be a part of this team. Welcome to the age of the builder. LFG

If you want to know all the secrets of the platform, wait no longer. I got you. Let me just grab my cheat sheet first 😂 Thanks for the christmas present. For all of you that don't have a cheat sheet available, use Wepost instead, i promise that's even better;)

The ultimate LinkedIn cheat sheet actually exists. A couple of weeks ago I was at the Sanna launch party at Mesh Oslo. Deep and Sebastian had just been in SF, walked through Stanford and saw cheat sheets for everything. Even one for accounting lol. So they bought me this.

@canva is now live in @WepostNO 🎨 Pull on-brand design directly from Canva and cross-publish across all employees in seconds🚀 Say goodbye to "off-brand" marketing. We're working closely with Canva on more features, but the direct integration is ready today. Try it out now💜

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