Experience

My core experience is building AI products from zero, with no venture capital, and monetize them early. My three tools are:

Ivan Braun Experience

WORK HISTORY

I'm a tech founder leading a team of 150 and serving 4M users.

Founder and CEO

Graphics for AI age

Face AI and synthetic data

Founder and CEO

My three areas of expertise are:

Customer Development

Books that formed me:

Interviewing UsersCompeting Against Luck

UX Design, my profession

Books that formed me:

About FaceDesigning Web Usability

Paywalls

Learning it all hard way

PRODUCTS WE'VE LAUNCHED

Largest graphics supplier to Canva

Industry partnership providing design assets

GenYOU

Personalized AI selfies

Face Generator

Technology behind our synthetic data

Human Generator

Full-body humans

ACHIEVEMENTS

4M+ Users Globally

Serving millions of designers and developers worldwide with AI-generated content and design tools

150+ Team Members

Leading a distributed team of professionals across multiple time zones and countries

Bootstrap Success

Built profitable AI companies without venture capital, focusing on early monetization and sustainable growth

International Speaker

Regular keynote speaker at AI conferences, sharing insights on building successful AI products

Synthetic Media Pioneer

Early innovator in AI-generated human faces and synthetic dataset creation for enterprise clients

Linkware Inventor (2012)

I invented the linkware model: Use for a link → SEO boost. Pay those who value a link more than $15 that the license costs. My inspiration was the requirement to credit photographers, but without a link requirement at the time.

Global Perspective

Operating from Argentina while building products used worldwide, bringing unique international insights

4M 👥
users
Globally
150 👥
team
$0
equity sold
$0
debt
23
years
creative tech
$54.6K
avg server
price
1st
vendor of
Canva

GOVERNMENT & REGULATORY

Government & Regulatory

I consult governments on AI regulation, creative tools, intellectual property, and ethics. The agencies I've worked with:

European Commission

AI regulation and policy consultation for the European Union

U.S. Department of Justice

Antitrust and competition matters related to creative tech

UK Competition and Markets Authority

Antitrust and competition matters related to creative tech