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Seasoned product leader Drew Falkman's expertise circles around AI, product, startups, and innovation.

Key Experience:
- CEO of frens, a Web3 community growth platform, Drew cultivated brand communities.
- Adjunct Instructor at LinkedIn, Drew channels his knowledge into courses like The Chief Technology Officer Career Guide, AI for Product Designers, and Data-Driven Product Management.
- Director, Product Strategy/Strategy at Modus Create, he spearheaded a product strategy consulting practice with a fast-paced growth trajectory.

With a legacy of successful product launches, for companies ranging from HP to Adobe to numerous other companies and startups, Drew has a breadth and depth of experience and skills in strategy and execution of successful innovative technology products.

Am passionate about music, mental health and psychedelics, as well as the importance of community and real human connection in the age of AI and social media.

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  • Golden Afternoon Graphic

    Director of Operations & Marketing & Music

    Golden Afternoon

    - Present 10 months

    Golden Afternoon is a boutique psychedelic mental health clinic that focuses on ketamine and esketamine (Spravato) treatments for depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and other mood disorders. I support Golden Afternoon by managing operations and run their marketing campaigns. I also curate playlists and develop music to accompany the experience.

    We are open to partnerships with organizations that prioritize mental health, we provide discounts to your employees. If you are a therapist…

    Golden Afternoon is a boutique psychedelic mental health clinic that focuses on ketamine and esketamine (Spravato) treatments for depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and other mood disorders. I support Golden Afternoon by managing operations and run their marketing campaigns. I also curate playlists and develop music to accompany the experience.

    We are open to partnerships with organizations that prioritize mental health, we provide discounts to your employees. If you are a therapist, reach out to discuss referral partnerships.

    If you are suffering from depression or other mood disorders, we have had a great deal of success and are here for you.

  • Moves The Needle Graphic

    Principal

    Moves The Needle

    - Present 1 year 9 months

    Bringing my product management skills to Moves The Needle’s outstanding coaching, product, and validation consulting to help build out MTN Product Studio and accelerate the time from idea to product market fit for our clients: from startups to Fortune 100.

  • LinkedIn Graphic

    Adjunct Instructor

    LinkedIn

    - Present 18 years 2 months

    Designed curriculum and taught online courses for LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com). Courses include: CTO Career Guide, Ethereum: Building Decentralized Apps (Dapps), PHP MVC Frameworks.

  • AI Product Accelerator Graphic

    Advisor & Instructor

    AI Product Accelerator

    - 1 year 10 months

    I advise founders of AI startups and support them into ideas, know their customers, prototype, no-code low-code build, launch, and ultimately find product market fit.

  • Chief Executive Officer

    frens

    - 2 years 2 months

    frens is a growth platform for Web3 communities. I founded this company based on my experience working with many different NFT, DAO and DeFi projects. We were supported by a residence program at the Stacks Foundation and backed by Stacks Ventures accelerator. We grew our product to support over 100 communities and hundreds of thousands of end users.

  • Larabee Graphic

    Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Larabee

    - 3 years 1 month

    Larabee is an interactive platform for learning new recipes and techniques using video and voice/AI.

  • Organizer, Product Lead and Founder daoOS Project

    Syvita Guild

    - 1 year 6 months

    Syvita is an open source project aimed at creating the new internet on Stacks blockchain. Syvita is creating my initiative, daoOS, an open source DAO management and governance tool. Additionally, they are creating sypool, miamicoin mining pool and more. See our github for active projects and message me if you are interested in contributing.

  • Stacks Open Internet Foundation Graphic

    Entrepreneur In Residence

    Stacks Open Internet Foundation

    - 6 months

    I researched and began building a platform for managing token communities. The platform would enable unique features like wallet integration, rewards and reputation management, airdrops, and DAO functionality, all via a simple Discord plugin and eventually, hosted SaaS tools.

  • Modus Create, Inc

    Modus Create, Inc

    4 years 8 months

    • Modus Create, Inc Graphic

      Director, Product Strategy + Strategy

      Modus Create, Inc

      - 2 years 2 months

      Greater Los Angeles Area

      Formalized and developed product strategy practice at Modus in first cohort of directors in rapid growth consulting company. Hire and lead a remote team of 5-10 product managers/strategists and ~10-15 UX designers. Looking for ways to bring innovation, lean experimentation, best practice product management, and upstream digital strategy to our clients current and future. We serve clients in SaaS, B2B, B2C, EdTech, FinTech, Non-profit, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Marketing and other markets. I…

      Formalized and developed product strategy practice at Modus in first cohort of directors in rapid growth consulting company. Hire and lead a remote team of 5-10 product managers/strategists and ~10-15 UX designers. Looking for ways to bring innovation, lean experimentation, best practice product management, and upstream digital strategy to our clients current and future. We serve clients in SaaS, B2B, B2C, EdTech, FinTech, Non-profit, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Marketing and other markets. I love inspiring my amazing team of UX and product people to do great work. I host webinars, write blogs, speak at conferences and promote our practice through thought leadership and support my team's effort to do so as well.

    • Modus Create, Inc Graphic

      Sr. Product Manager

      Modus Create, Inc

      - 2 years 6 months

      As a Sr. Product Manager at Modus Create, I worked with clients to determine their product vision, ideate on solutions and go to market using Modus Create's top-notch remote teams. Led initiatives as product manager for applications in Fin Tech (SaaS B2B), Ed Tech (B2C, Mobile) and Non-profit Fin Tech (B2C, PWA) - AARP Money Map.

  • Founder/CEO - Product + Innovation Consultant

    Falkon Productions (Veraison, LLC)

    - 18 years 2 months

    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Falkon Productions was a product development consulting company that I founded. As a consultant, I provided product research, ideation, roadmapping and execution on digital products (mobile, web and blockchain). These applications were in both consumer and enterprise and focused on B2B, B2E and B2C.

    • Created, managed, marketed profitable consulting business for 15+ years.
    • Recruited ad hoc remote teams of product, UX and engineering for client work.
    • Led product for…

    Falkon Productions was a product development consulting company that I founded. As a consultant, I provided product research, ideation, roadmapping and execution on digital products (mobile, web and blockchain). These applications were in both consumer and enterprise and focused on B2B, B2E and B2C.

    • Created, managed, marketed profitable consulting business for 15+ years.
    • Recruited ad hoc remote teams of product, UX and engineering for client work.
    • Led product for cross-departmental vision prototype for internal Adobe customer service and sales application.
    • Consulted on HP Labs energy initiative, invited back as consulting product manager for new device roadmap for related energy hardware device.
    • Headed product for Stampede Cattle (later Roundup Cattle), created eBay-style and real-time (award-winning)
    cattle auction applications leading to national press, unprecedented growth in that industry
    and eventually buyout by largest competitor.
    • Hired as product co-founder MAN vs BABY - developed roadmap, created mobile/web for media play
    focused on the “new dad” and helped get national TV and web exposure.
    • Led product planning, created roadmap, assembled and inspired team to build 12 interactive e-books for Falcon Guides (Pequot Press) – exceeding even vendor expectations.
    • Led product management for “Neptune” web app and interface for Trident-IT, a company I helped bring to the Inc. 5000 list from nothing in under three years.

  • Founder

    DAOist

    - 11 months

    DAOist is an open source blockchain/DLT project I conceived and created (with the help of a dev and design team) to empower decentralized autonomous exchanges to execute on projects by allowing members to vote their tokens on projects they support. When a project receives enough tokens to reach its budget, the tokens will be released to the project's owner on milestones at the approval of a majority of voters. Dapp that utilized smart contracts.

  • Evrybit Graphic

    Head of Product / Co-founding CTO

    Evrybit

    - 2 years

    Santa Monica

    Evrybit is a post-seed, pre-Series-A startup that aims to democratize journalism through a mobile app that publishes live stories and empowers users to monetize.

    • Headed product management and product development first as consultant, then as co-founder
    • Developed roadmap and product strategy for social media sharing mobile app
    • Hired and led product, UX and engineering to bring app to market
    • Re-designed web site that doubled visits and page views in first 3 months.
    •…

    Evrybit is a post-seed, pre-Series-A startup that aims to democratize journalism through a mobile app that publishes live stories and empowers users to monetize.

    • Headed product management and product development first as consultant, then as co-founder
    • Developed roadmap and product strategy for social media sharing mobile app
    • Hired and led product, UX and engineering to bring app to market
    • Re-designed web site that doubled visits and page views in first 3 months.
    • Wire-framed and mapped out new app design which tested well with users

  • Founder/CEO

    Vinzy

    - 2 years 8 months

    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Founded wine commerce startup with a multi-pronged approach: make favorable conditions for smaller producers (no flash sales, drop shipping, good margins and promotion), incentivize sharing and purchasing through points program and easy-and-fun-to-use app, create drinker's profiles to intelligently suggest wines (and allow them to read relevant reviews). Created web site, wine profile app and managed all aspects of this marketplace business, notably securing quality suppliers, setting up…

    Founded wine commerce startup with a multi-pronged approach: make favorable conditions for smaller producers (no flash sales, drop shipping, good margins and promotion), incentivize sharing and purchasing through points program and easy-and-fun-to-use app, create drinker's profiles to intelligently suggest wines (and allow them to read relevant reviews). Created web site, wine profile app and managed all aspects of this marketplace business, notably securing quality suppliers, setting up scalable supply chain and marketing to consumers.

  • Managing Member

    Auction-Tech, LLC

    - 3 years 4 months

    Managed product and roadmap as co-founder to license real-time auction technology to live markets.

  • Co-Founder

    Project Alpha, Inc.

    - 4 years 3 months

    Portland, Oregon, United States

    Project Alpha was an early data-drive web agency located in Portland, Oregon focusing on product development and ideation during the dotcom era. Developed Application Leasing Technology (ALT) in 2000 using internal IP, adopted a SaaS model and raised a venture round from Cascadia Investment Partners.

    • Led product management (though it wasn't called that then) and ideation process
    • As co-founder, grew PA to be in the top 5 largest agencies in Portland.
    • Brought in clients…

    Project Alpha was an early data-drive web agency located in Portland, Oregon focusing on product development and ideation during the dotcom era. Developed Application Leasing Technology (ALT) in 2000 using internal IP, adopted a SaaS model and raised a venture round from Cascadia Investment Partners.

    • Led product management (though it wasn't called that then) and ideation process
    • As co-founder, grew PA to be in the top 5 largest agencies in Portland.
    • Brought in clients, planned innovative applications and built them on-time – from e-
    commerce to auctions and CMS apps.
    • Created roadmap and architected in-house apps that became foundation of venture funding
    • Contributed in all aspects of business, from marketing to sales to management of dev team
    • Successfully pitched VC and seasoned CEO who kept me as the sole founder post-funding

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • The Product Manager Graphic

    Advisory Board Member

    The Product Manager

    - Present 2 years 2 months

    The Product Manager is a dynamic and diverse professional community and online publication for digital product leaders navigating the challenges of product growth and maturity.
    As a member of The Product Manager’s Advisory Board, I collaborate with other thought leaders to shape the conversation around emerging trends and help product professionals excel in their careers. I do this by providing mentorship, creating educational content, and sharing my knowledge and insights with the community.

  • International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Graphic

    Member

    International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

    - Present 5 years 9 months

    IADAS presents The Webby Awards, The Lovie Awards and The Anthem Awards. With a network of over 2000 intellectually diverse members, we help drive the creative, technical & professional progress of the Internet.

    As an associate member, I help to judge Webby's awards.

Skills

Publications

  • Reality Macromedia ColdFusion MX: J2EE Integration

    Pearson

    Other authors
  • The JRun Web Application Construction Kit

    Pearson

Courses

  • CTO Career Guide

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  • Ethereum: Building Blockchain Decentralized Apps (DApps)

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  • MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications

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Projects

  • #GetUsPPE

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    Dedicated to distributing masks and protective equipment to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 crisis. I originally founded getusppe.com but was brought into a larger consortium at getusppe.org.

    Other creators
    • Shuhan He
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Honors & Awards

  • Best Product Consultant 2019

    The Product Group

Organizations

  • Int'l Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences

    Member

    - Present

    Judging member for organization that awards the Webby and the Lovies.

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