prasan
I help protocols and foundations turn scattered builders into funded teams
8 years · 200+ events · 16,000+ participants in the room
i build founder ecosystems, global community programs & high-signal events.
Ecosystems compound when someone stays with builders after the event ends. Most programmes optimise for the weekend. The results live in the six months after it.
what i do
Great ecosystems don't happen by accident. They come from intentional design, programs people want to join, and stories that make them stay. Three pillars, run end-to-end.
ecosystem strategy
The thesis, the funnel, the map: where builders come from, and where they go next.
programs & events
Community activations via Hacker houses, residencies, flagship conferences, launchpads and Country tours: India, Philippines.
community storytelling
Technology attracts attention. Community is what brings people back.
Public archives, video and rituals that outlast demo day.
How I work, and what I won't do.
These cost me applicants, sponsors and easier weekends. I'd run it the same way again.
No open calls
Every seat is chosen. A room's character is set by the last person you let in, and every weak yes costs three strong builders who quietly decide the bar isn't real.
Three months, minimum, after
Demo day is the midpoint. Weekly check-ins, intros, debriefs — I stay in it until the round either closes or clearly won't.
Small and curated over big and full
Thirty right people beat three hundred warm bodies. I will not trade cohort quality for a photo of a packed hall.
Everything is instrumented
Who came, who came back, who shipped, who raised. If I can't measure the second visit, I didn't run a programme. I ran an event.
the first 90 days
Not a promise, a method. This is what I'd actually do walking into an ecosystem I wanna build.
Find the real room
Every ecosystem has a stated community and an actual one. They're rarely the same people.
- Talk to 30 builders/consumers, not 3 partners.
- Map where builders arrive and where they quietly leave.
- Audit what already works before changing anything.
Run one thing properly
One small, well-curated room beats a calendar full of half-full ones. Prove the format before scaling it.
- Ship a single high-signal event end to end.
- Curate hard, the activities set the tone.
- Instrument it: who came, who came back.
Build the follow-through
The part almost nobody staffs and the only part that turns attendance into outcomes.
- Stand up the post-event funnel and own it.
- Make intros to system, not a hit and trials.
- Publish the archive so momentum compounds.
building a room worth being in?
Hiring for an ecosystem, events or community role, or want a residency, that actually matters? Let's talk.
the toolkit
The skills the work runs on — and the paper from the chapter before it.
what the work actually runs on, day to day.
credentials from the research years — kept for the record.
what people say
The real receipts are the people — cohorts, founders and the teams I've mentored. Unedited.
Want the six months after the event actually staffed?
That's the work I do. Ecosystem strategy, hacker houses, residencies, launchpads and flagship events, designed and run end to end. The first fifteen minutes are free.
Hiring for an ecosystem, events or community role? Same address — the résumé is here.
also here for partnerships · press · speaking
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