ABOUT US
Evan Roberts, Co-Founder
Evan has worked as an audio reporter, filmmaker, and event organizer for over two decades and was honored to create work featured in The New York Times, PBS, and NPR. Audio Heirlooms, his 20-year business creating customized audio stories for private families, offered clients the chance to preserve their most cherished family narratives. These projects took him to the floor of the NYSE, the hills of San Francisco, and a memorial service at Mariner Stadium in Seattle. As an audio producer, he reported stories for NPR member stations in San Francisco and produced audio for the The New York Times Audio App. At the Times, he worked on projects that were heard by 1 million users in the app’s first six months. Evan has also directed and produced award-winning films programmed at various festivals such as Cannes, Slamdance, and SXSW. Evan and Ryan organized the inaugural “Merylthon” film festival in September 2023 at the Four Star Theater in San Francisco.
Ryan MacCarrigan, Co-Founder
Ryan is a cinephile and community builder who is best known as one of the early evangelists of the Lean Startup movement. In 2011-2012, he trotted around the globe, facilitating dozens of “Lean Startup Machine” trainings, which sowed the seeds of the movement. Most of his career has been at the intersection of product management and innovation management; he’s hosted hundreds of product and innovation-focused workshops and training programs. He’s the former president of the Columbia Venture Community (CVC), the largest shared interest group among Columbia University alumni in tech. Recently, he started teaching in the full-time Immersive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management programs at UC Berkeley. Ryan is a hardcore sci-fi geek who believes the genre instills a sense of civic responsibility in those who heed its warnings of future dystopia (yet somehow, he manages to remain a techno-optimist).