Nicholas Thorne

Nicholas Thorne is an entrepreneur and student of entrepreneurship. He is a cofounder of Audos, the entrepreneurial AI company, which he created to capture his learnings from a decade of building the venture studio, Prehype. He is the coauthor or Me, My Customer and AI.

Through Prehype, Nicholas has worked with entrepreneurs to start dozens of companies and has documented the methods used by founders in the firm’s portfolio to create companies like BARK (NYSE: BARK), Ro, and Public.com among others. He frequently shares his learnings at Stanford University and beyond, with lectures on novel entrepreneurship methods and how AI will impact entrepreneurship. He serves on the boards of Ferry and For Them, among other young companies in the Prehype portfolio.

Nicholas graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, where he launched his first online business—an on-demand delivery service for dorm essentials. After graduation, he started his career in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship fulltime. He is a born-and-raised New Yorker, where he currently lives with his wife and two sons. He serves on the board of the Mt. Sinai Parenting Center and is an ambassador of the Dream Charter Schools.