
Jeppe Rindom, co-founder of Pleo, joins Henrik Werdelin for a walk through Copenhagen — retracing the first thousand days of one of Europe's leading fintech companies. They started without an idea, without a name, and without a plan. This is the story of how they built it anyway.
Apr 23
49 min

This episode originally appeared on Dan Blumberg’s podcast “Future Around & Find Out”, where Henrik joined as a guest.
Henrik Werdelin shares an optimistic perspective on how AI could shape the future of capitalism. He discusses how AI might enable more people to start businesses, why relationship capital matters, and how founders can approach building in a rapidly changing landscape.
Mar 20
38 min

"You Are Not So Smart" podcast host David McRaney and Henrik Werdelin sit down to discuss the surprising results of a new study into what happens when groups of people work together to brainstorm solutions to problems with the help of ChatGPT.
Based on their new research, Stanford's Jeremy Utley and best-selling author Kian Gohar have created a new paradigm for getting the most out of AI-assisted ideation, which they call FIXIT. In this episode, we dive into the research and explore how you can become better at getting good ideas with AI.
Feb 20, 2024
1 hr 8 min

This episode of the prehype podcast is a recast of a new podcast that we are launching called "Beyond the Prompt". Its a podcast that dives deep into the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work. Hosted by Jeremy Utley of Stanford's d.school, alongside prehype's Henrik Werdelin, an entrepreneur known for starting BarkBox, each episode features conversations with innovators and leaders to uncover pragmatic stories of how organizations leverage AI to accelerate success. Learn creative strategies and actionable tactics you can apply right away as AI capabilities advance exponentially. In this first episode, we speak with Section's CEO, Greg Shove. Greg Shove is the CEO of Section, an educational technology company. Previously known as Section4, the organization was founded in 2019 by NYU Professor and serial entrepreneur Scott Galloway. Section, under Shove's leadership, focuses on being a new type of business school for the tech economy, catering to a growing base of students interested in this field. Greg brings an awesome perspective, having founded five companies, resulting in three major exits and being at the forefront of reinventing education. Together, we’ll discuss real-world examples of companies using AI-powered tools to increase productivity, boost efficiency, and improve the customer experience. This episode is filled with great tips for people looking to introduce the powers of AI into their company. Please subscribe to the new podcast on: https://podcast.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or search "Beyond the Prompt" on any of the platforms where you listen to podcasts.
Dec 19, 2023
47 min

On this week’s episode, we talk with Kylo Freeman, the Founder of ForThem, a wellness company serving the LGBTQIA+ community. We discuss everything from Kylo’s background, her struggles with entrepreneurship, how she ended up getting started, and how she is able to execute.
Nov 16, 2022
43 min

On this week's episode, we talked with the famed Prehype Founding Partner and Founder of BARK Henrik Werdelin about starting businesses.
Nov 9, 2022
28 min

Relationship Capital - The durable advantage of defining your business by who you serve (not what you do)
In this episode, we discuss the concept of Relationship Capital in business and how companies accumulate advantages in the 21st century. We consider the value of defining your business based on who you serve not what you do. And we talk to guests Mario Gabriele (@mariogabriele) from The Generalist and Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) from Creative Strategies about Starbucks, Apple and Peloton and the advantages that they have formed.
Nov 22, 2021
38 min

In this podcast, we speak with Romain Rousseau, co-founder of COOP by Ryder. Three years ago, while head of digital marketing at the transportation and logistics company Ryder, an internal idea caught Romain’s attention: could you apply an Airbnb type approach to commercial trucks? Since then, Romain has tried to make that business happen. Currently, the team is 20 people and has several thousand trucks on the platform. If you are leading innovation or growth efforts inside an organization, Romain’s story may give you some hard-fought lessons that you can use in your own endeavors.
Nov 22, 2020
41 min

This week we are breaking down an article on Open APi’s new language prediction model, GPT-3, originally published on July 18, 2020 on Manuel Araoz personal blog. Prehype's Henrik Werdelin, Nicholas Thorne and digital artist Damion Janski join together in a round table to discuss the potential enormous raw power of GPT-3!
Aug 12, 2020
16 min

While Henrik currently cannot walk and talk with people for the podcast, we are shaking things up with a new format. For the next number of weeks, we will be sourcing and condensing interesting blog posts into audio format here, for your listening pleasure.
First up, we are taking a dive into Henrik’s 8+1 Method of moving through life with intention while managing two growing businesses and a family. Henrik first shared this system with Dan Shipper of Super Organizers, in October of 2019.
Jul 27, 2020
4 min
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