Benjamin Bekken
Founder/CEOFounder at Native (YC F26). Previous Minecraft YouTuber and video creator with 15 years of experience in marketing, and millions of views. Got a double master's degree in media, communication & IT.
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Native is building an autonomous marketing platform where business can do all of their marketing within one platform using our artificial intuition model called Norn, that predicts what people will respond to, researched and built in house.
Founder at Native (YC F26). Previous Minecraft YouTuber and video creator with 15 years of experience in marketing, and millions of views. Got a double master's degree in media, communication & IT.
Founder at Native (YC F26). Previously co-founder & CTO at Wepost, a B2B marketing platform. MS in Computer Science with AI specialization from EURECOM and NTNU, plus MSc in Entrepreneurship. Early experience in AI/ML at DNV and Norconsult, working on computer vision and radar technology applications.
Cofounder of Native (YC F26). First co-founded and sold out music festival at 17, then founded marketing agency while doing master's degree in Tech Venture from NTNU (Norwegian MIT). Last year at college I cofounded Wepost which we built for 2.5 years, merging that to start Native in January 2026.
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