ON_Discourse Group Chat for AI Leaders with Nicholas Thorne, Co-Founder, Audos

​OpenAI just closed $122 billion. Vibe coding is a $4.7 billion market. More apps are being built than ever — and more founders are building them completely alone.

​, an AI platform that helps people launch businesses from scratch using autonomous agents. Since the Domain AI Summit last year, his product thesis has shifted, his tech stack has been both enabled and threatened by the same model providers, and he's landed on a funding model borrowed from the music industry that rejects VC logic entirely.

​This conversation covers what's changed in AI since we last gathered, why the "co-pilot" framing broke, what happens when you bet your company on a model provider that can pull the rug at any time, and the question nobody in AI wants to talk about: the human cost of building with machines instead of people.

​Fortune calls loneliness a $406 billion problem. A majority of AI stakeholders expect a vibe-coded startup to have a catastrophic public failure by summer. The dreams are getting bigger and the builders are getting more isolated.

​We'll get into the money, the tech, the thesis — and the part that doesn't fit on a pitch deck.

​Guest speaker:

Nicholas Thorne is co-founder of Audos and General Partner at Prehype, the venture development firm behind BARK, Ro, and Public.com. He started on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs before leaving to build companies. Through Prehype, he's helped launch dozens of startups and currently sits on the boards of Ferry, For Them, and Radicle. He and Henrik Werdelin co-authored "Me, My Customer and AI," a USA Today bestseller. His focus is on using AI to close the gap between people who have business ideas and people who actually build them.

​ON_Discourse Group Chats are live, high-signal discourse driven conversations with AI leaders, builders and operators.

​Not your typical Zoom, these are intimate, provocative, deeply practical sessions where we sharpen each others perspectives.