On stage, on podcasts, and in the Norwegian tech press. I mostly talk about building AI products that survive contact with production, and the honest parts that get cut from the polished version. If you'd like me to speak at your event, reach out.
Tekna Lunch & Learn · Jan 2026
How to build AI products that actually work in production: structured output with the AI SDK, long-running processes in the UI, browser agents, and combining email with AI. Everything I learned shipping Homi.
Fagkveld @ Rebel Oslo, Techfolk · Nov 2025
Practical AI in a modern web stack, for a room full of Oslo developers. The unpolished version, with live product and pizza.
Lightning Talks, Abakus · NTNU, 2017
A ten-minute lightning talk on nine very different ways to see the world. It was the early version of an obsession that never went away.
Norwegian talk · 2016
A practical introduction to turning assumptions into hypotheses, testing the riskiest ones first, and using an MVP to learn rather than merely ship less.
“Product development should feel more like driving a car and making small corrections than launching a spaceship.”
ProductPreach #5 · 2018
A talk from my Netlight years about applying Lean Startup inside a large product organization: leap-of-faith assumptions, useful experiments, and the decision to pivot or persevere.
“An MVP is the easiest thing you can show a customer that gives you the most valuable learning.”
AI Julekalender, day 4 · Dec 2025
The first live demo of Homi's new AI engine for Daniel Westervik's Norwegian AI advent calendar, covering natural conversation, profile building, and a search through the housing market.
Relentlessly · Dec 2025
On building Homi alone: raising a pre-seed, what people misunderstand about solo founders, pitching at Slush, and whether AI should post on social media for you.
Venture Capital in Scandinavia · Mar 2025
An inside look at Wordware's blockbuster $30M seed round as employee number five: YC demo day, US versus Scandinavian working and fundraising culture, and whether Norway is ambitious enough.
Støttehjulet · Feb 2025
An hour and forty minutes on the road from NTNU to San Francisco: being a founding engineer at Wordware (YC S24) while the AI wave crested, Silicon Valley culture, and what I'd tell aspiring founders.
kode24 · Dec 2025
Ukas koder: on building Homi solo with an absurd amount of AI, and the TypeScript stack that makes it possible.
Shifter · Nov 2025
On heading to Slush when half my network suddenly was going, plus the invitation to pitch Homi on stage that sealed it.
Shifter · Oct 2025
Why I left Wordware after the billion-dollar valuation to go all-in on Homi.
Shifter · Nov 2024
On being one of two Norwegians with key roles at Wordware after one of YC's largest seed rounds ever.
Shifter · May 2022
When Mesh took over Scales, my technical baby, while my co-founder got to stay in Norway.
Shifter · Jul 2021
A profile interview from the month I took the Scales team to Lofoten for a workation.
Khrono · Mar 2016
Quoted as an NTNU student on exchange in Melbourne, telling everyone else to go too.
Finansavisen · May 2025
An op-ed on giving Innovasjon Norge rules that actually reward value creation, written from San Francisco.
Junior Consulting on Medium · Mar 2020
An early-pandemic essay on remote work routines, written before working from anywhere was the plan all along.
Founders Hub Oslo · 2026
Building Homi from the top floor of Mesh Youngstorget, alongside a crew of Norwegian AI founders. Ship or leave.