The team
Benjamin Bekken
CEO & Co-founder
Has been making things for the internet since he was 15.
Benjamin started young. A Minecraft server ecosystem powered by YouTube videos with 4 million views. A remix of Kygo’s “It Ain’t Me” with 13.5 million plays on SoundCloud. Zero budget, all distribution. That is what Native runs on.
He spent ten years as a professional content creator for OBOS, NTE, BERRE and the Norwegian Armed Forces while taking a double master’s at NTNU. His thesis proved marketing professionals cannot reliably tell high-quality AI content from human-made content. So he built the thing that makes it.
He and Håkon spent three years building the AI engine that became Native. The first version, Wepost, grew to 1,500 users before they rebuilt everything from scratch. Benjamin still codes every day, mostly frontend and product, with Claude Code always open.
- Remixed Kygo’s “It Ain’t Me” to 13.5M plays on SoundCloud
- Won the Anthropic × Lovable “Push to Prod” hackathon at Slush
- Sparebank 1 Talent Grant, one of Norway’s most promising young founders
- Master’s thesis: marketers cannot tell AI content from human content
Built the AI marketing platform Native grew out of. $100K ARR, zero outbound sales.
School of Entrepreneurship and media science, with a semester at Boston University.
Ten years of professional content for Norwegian brands.
