Rashad Karanouh

Hacienda is a freelance collective that helps companies in their tech transition process building great user-centered and data-driven products. • Launched 10+ MVPs and mobile apps for clients in various industries: tech, beauty, music and agriculture • Generated €350k+ in sales, managed end-to-end process while overseeing both design and technical delivery. • Led workshops for product consultant firms, sharing insights and best practices to help less experienced teams improve their product development processes.

• Owned roadmap and development of two mobile apps, owning 50% of the codebase. 250k downloads. Up to 30k MAU • Scaled the team from 4 to 12, implementing Agile with 1-week sprints • Negotiated and secured licensing deals with Sony, Believe, Warner • Handled operations tasks, including writing SQL and Python scripts for support, international expansion, artists workflows, and to address product gaps • Raised €1.6M in funding, securing investment from music and tech business angels Rapsodie brings music artist IP to gaming Rapsodie is a game studio that develops music artist IP based games and empowers game developers by providing access to music artist image rights (IP). By simplifying access to artist IP, we help game developers boost acquisition, retention, and monetization by integrating artist IP into their games, while creating new revenue streams for artists. Since launching, we’ve achieved: - 150k organic downloads from our first game, GenZ trend in France, built brand name - A second game, a TCG with a 1-1 CAC:LTV ratio, on track for profitability - Secured 2,500 licenses with independent artists and deals with major labels like Sony, Believe, Wagram, and Because.

Teaching Product Mindset

Co-founder: Etienne Jouan Airworkie's mission was to make remote as accessible as possible for teams of all sizes. We started as a cheap workspace provider with various coworking spaces and then pivoted into a framework made to help teams organize themselves around remote for better productivity.

In charge of the launch of a community platform to help coworkers @ Nextdoor thrive. The goal is to enable valuable interactions within the community as a part of Nextdoor's core value proposition beyond space rent. Missions include rethinking user stories and defining user-centric use cases for a community of 5000+ people present in 6 sites all over the country. Working with a cross-functional team of 7 people in the company and a developers team in Jerusalem.

Freelance workshops working with corporates to define, imagine, prototype and test business innovations. Apply Design Thinking, Agile, and Sprint methodologies through on many projects variously advanced from idea to first working prototype Worked with VISA, L'Oréal, Société Générale, Baker McKenzie, Engie, Vinci Immobilier and many more.

High school students mentoring in mathematics and physics. “I never teach my pupils…I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

Co-Founder: Charlotte Moreau The Nabu wristband was a sign translation wristband designed to help deaf people communicate with non-signers. As a mechanical engineer, I had the first prototype in 8 days and then realized the software would be at the center of the product. While working on the signal processing, I helped my co-founder exploring the possibilities and opportunities brought by our product beyond the business case we were building. Check out our first prototype demo: https://goo.gl/photos/39tBUhqWZJtfqHBS6