Co-Founder at Mini Studio at Mini Studio
Fabrice Nadjari
I am an engineer, creative entrepreneur, storyteller and content strategist with over 15 years of experience in conceiving and developing creative content for and with brands, scientific, international and cultural institutions. I am currently the co-founder of Mini Studio AI, a cutting-edge AI Creative Production Platform redefining the future of animation for kids and families. I have worked in the last 15 years with clients such as Spotify, The World Bank, UNESCO, LVMH, Kickstarter or Google, advising their C-level executives on how to navigate the intersection of Storytelling and Technology. My work as a storyteller has been awarded by the first Prize National Geographic and nominated to an Emmy Award. A graduate of french Ivy League ‘Ecole Centrale’, I hold a Master of Sciences in Engineering (Mathematical Modelization) and a Master of Sciences in Organizational Sociology. I have been a Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at New York's Parsons School of Design between others.
Questions & Answers
Why are you excited about your company/product?
I think being able to build such a start-up that fully rethinks the traditional Studio Model in the era of AI is a fantastic place to be. Having worked for the past 2 decades at this intersection of Storytelling and Technology, I often noticed that we (engineers ;) ) have a tendency to forget that Tech should always be at the service of the Narration and not the other way around. To build a tool that will empower generation of creatives AND revolutionize the way kids content is produced is an extraordinary goal. I grew up in a family and a time where access to screens was quite limited and every viewing of the last Disney was a personal and family-binding event which helped me to grow, build my value system and that I still remember many years after. To be able to change the way both parents and children relate to kids content and what it conveys is one of the most exciting challenges there is now, especially in an AI-ridden society where social emotional learning will be essential!
Can you share a distinctive achievement or highlight from your career?
In 2010, I decided to take a sabbatical year from the company I was co-heading and, after a year of intense and careful preparation, crossed Afghanistan by foot, following a tribe of Ismaeli nomads and sheperds and documenting their lives. This epic journey turned into a full-blown storytelling project centered around afghan kids and their relationship to images and creativity, which ended up winning the First Prize National Geographic and an Emmy nomination. It carried all the seeds that took me to co-found Mini Studio in 2022, a company whose vision relies on empowering creativity through Storytelling and Technology. It was also an extraordinary lesson in resilience, humbleness, listening and perseverance (life is hard in the Afghan Pamirs), which still serves me as a North Star in the beautiful and exciting project I am lucky to work on with my team today!
