He Built AI Agents to Launch a Million Businesses

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with Henrik Werdelin, the founding partner at the startup studio Prehype, and cofounder of Audos, a platform where you can build your own AI startup. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript.

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Henrik Werdelin wants to launch 1 million businesses that make $1 million each.

As the founding partner of Prehype—the startup studio behind companies like Barkbox and Ro Health—he’s spent the last decade helping founders turn ideas into successful, venture-backed companies. Now, he’s taking everything he’s learned and building it into Audos, a platform that helps everyday entrepreneurs use AI agents to brainstorm ideas, finance and market their products, and find niche audiences. He also recently co-authored a book, Me, My Customer, and AI, about the new shades of entrepreneurship that AI is creating.

After years of building companies and helping others do the same, Werdelin has developed a sharp eye for what really makes a startup work. In this episode of AI & I, Dan Shipper and Werdelin talk about what separates successful AI businesses from the rest. (We had Werdelin’s cofounder at Audos, Nicholas Thorne, on the podcast back in March of 2024.)