Shakas Designer — Speaker & Press
Australian technology founder, entrepreneur, creator and storyteller building at the intersection of founder knowledge, content, search and AI discovery. Founder of 4 businesses built, one after the other, over the last several years.
A founder posts something real, it performs for a day, then the algorithm moves on — and their whole body of work disappears underneath whatever they posted next.
What I speak about
- Your content already exists
- Stop feeding the feed
- Your social audience isn't your only asset
- What happens when AI becomes part of the audience?
- Building technology when you didn't start in tech
- Building in public before you feel ready
- When your startup looks like it is trying to do too much
- From expertise to education
- Building businesses around an actual problem
- Building a business without building a conventional life around it
Built from doing it, not just talking about it
Four businesses. Four very different lessons.
- Billow Beach — The world’s first 3-in-1 beach bag with an integrated towel and pillow.
- Pretty Cool Marketing — We film, edit and distribute social media content that helps businesses get discovered.
- Stagger Inn Adventures — A Darwin-based 4WD tour company founded by Mitch and Shakas.
- The Culo Village — Australian Founder Publishing and Discovery Platform
221 founder stories published through the platform. 1 pieces of content processed. 4 businesses built.
About Shakas
Shakas Designer is an Australian technology founder, entrepreneur, photographer, videographer and content creator. After more than 15 years working behind a camera, she went on to co-found a 4WD tourism business, design Billow Beach, build Pretty Cool Marketing and eventually create CULO after repeatedly running into the same problem: founders had valuable stories, ideas and expertise everywhere, but no real system connecting it all together.