Benjamin Bekken ⭐️
@BenjaminBekken
CEO & Cofounder @ @trynativeapp (YC F26)
Currently in @ycombinator in San Francisco.
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This week I finally got the team out to celebrate that we got into YC!!
And we celebrated with our "half-Norwegian" friends at Agent Relay!
Agent Relay turns coding agents into a working team. We're excited to try them out and you should too, they're taking new customers.🔥
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14 day challenge: get a hotel chain onboarded in Native, or I play the flute at a local talent show (I can't play the flute).
We just got into YC and hotels are our vertical.
Know a hotelier or CMO? Please intro me.
The sales raccoon is checking in. 🤘
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Native Autopilot is live 🚀
Before, you approved or declined every post. Now you don't even do that.
It finds trends, matches your context, writes the post, schedules it at your best time, picks platforms, then reads analytics to improve next time.
Just a toggle. Try it now 🔥
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Today we're launching Native Autopilot.
Before, you could put your marketing on autopilot, but you still had to approve every post.
Now you don't even do that.
It searches trends, matches your context, writes the post, and schedules it. Organic and ads.
Try it! Live today 🚀
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One week into YC and we've already been on the big stage!
We demoed the product to fellow batch founders and alumni.
Also super proud of the team. We moved into a hacker house and they are shipping like crazy 🔥
The next couple of weeks are going to be wild!
More to come 👀
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The raccoon is back in SF. YC next.
We got into Y Combinator 🚀
Now we will build among some of the best startups and founders in the world.
Thank you to all who believed in us this far, we promise you, this is just the beginning🔥
Read more about the announcement on our website 🔗
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We got into @ycombinator!
For those that don't know us: The best marketing autopilot on the market. Began in January, launched in March, scaled to $2M ARR, bootstrapped.
Thanks for believing in us @harjtaggar and @charliewarren, we couldn't be more excited for what's to come!🔥
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Native MCP is live 🚀
Run your social media straight from a Claude, ChatGPT or Grok conversation.
Draft the post in your brand voice, generate the image, pick a time. It lands on your Native calendar without leaving the chat.
Let us know what you think🔥
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Native MCP is live 🥳
You can now run Native straight from Claude or any other AI provider.
I ask Claude what's scheduled, it pulls it from Native. I ask it to draft something, it drafts it in my voice.
It changes the whole workflow.
Try it and tell me what you think 🔥
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Yesterday I stepped out of the tech world and into history.
An honor to serve as a public affairs officer at H.M. King Harald V's funeral, alongside the Norwegian Home Guard Band.
Now back to work.
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A month ago we were caking investors all over San Francisco.
One month later we're the one getting cold-caked by a YC startup 😅
Full circle.
Thanks for the cake @daymakerguy.
And congrats on the launch @agnostai and @ShubhamInTech.
Keep the cakes coming!!🎂
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The talent density in the Nordics is insane 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰
Honor to share the TechBBQ stage with Vasilij from Kime, Elias from Epiminds and Stephan from Anthropic.
AI is totally changing marketing, and these guys are at the forefront.
Huge thanks to Pedro and the TechBBQ team 🔥
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This morning 50 founders, VCs and tech-people ran around Copenhagen!!
Thanks everyone for coming, such a blast.
And especially Founders Hub, Matrikel1, EWOR, Zero, The Shack & Sanna for cohosting.
If you're at TechBBQ, go find these people. Excited for more!! 🔥
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Is this the last decade where marketing is human-lead?
That's what I'm asking on the TechBBQ Founder Stage next week.
With Laura Modiano (OpenAI), Elias Malm (Epiminds), and Vasilij Brandt (KIME).
Aug 27, 10:05. Let's gooo 🔥
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The band is back together.
Back in Oslo this week at Sanna House with some seriously good startups. Watchdog. Heist. Astar. Audun. Journalia. And more.
Norway is still punching! 🇳🇴
Let me know if you want a coffee before we head back to San Francisco ☕
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Native Designer is live 🚀
Full design control, right inside Native. Think Canva, baked in with your AI features.
Edit every post yourself. Change layouts, tweak text, swap images.
Design it, schedule it, publish it. All in Native.
Try it now 🔥
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Native Designer is live today.
Until now, if you wanted to tweak what Native generated, you'd bounce to Canva, PowerPoint or Adobe Express, redo it, and paste it back in. Annoying.
Now you don't have to.
Native Designer is live today for every Native subscriber.
LFG 🔥
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