BUILDING PRODUCTS THAT UNLOCK HUMAN POTENTIAL

BUILDING PRODUCTS THAT UNLOCK HUMAN POTENTIAL

RYAN

RYAN

SEERAS

SEERAS

I'm Ryan, a product leader at the intersection of EdTech, AI, and community. Mission: help one million people design careers that actually matter.

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Below are things I've written about building products, designing careers, and why education is broken.


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Writing

Building an AI Tutor Taught Me Why Most AI in Education Will Fail

Being excited about AI’s impact on education in 2025 is like being excited about MOOCs’ impact on education in 2012.

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Unbundling Our Broken Education System 

Let’s break down why higher ed hasn’t lived up to its expectations and ultimately, failed at helping their students thrive in our modern economy.

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Live By Design, Not By Default

I felt like my life wasn’t aligned with my desires, values, and greater purpose. These tensions increased to the point where I felt a deep sense of unhappiness in my life.

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Find Work That Feels Like Play 

We spend too much time in a job and very little time deciding which jobs to get into.

Take some time to answer the following questions, and they might help you in identifying your definition of “play.”

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Finding Fulfilment at Work (and in Life)

We’ve become so externally programmed and driven that its leading us to compete against ourselves internally.

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Hustle + Opportunity + Failure = Luck

“Being lucky” came from years of cultivating a hustle mentality, being open to all types of opportunities, and embracing my failures.

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How I Got Here

The industrial-age playbook: school → cubicle → pension, never felt like mine. As the economy rewires itself, I’m writing a new narrative built on curiosity, experimentation, and a personal career moat of unique skills and networks.

The industrial-age playbook: school → cubicle → pension, never felt like mine. As the economy rewires itself, I’m writing a new narrative built on curiosity, experimentation, and a personal career moat of unique skills and networks.

Most Things Fail

People Over Platforms

Build What Actually Matters

That curiosity pushed me to ship everything from a community app to a 3D-printed chocolate startup, an e-commerce coffee brand, and a government policy role. Most fizzled fast. Best MBA money can't buy.

But a few stuck.

My first startup: Workit.

Workit was a career community for tech talent. Launched three cohort-based programs with 87% CSAT.

Built mentor roster from Stripe, Netflix, GitLab.

I then decided to work at Tomorrow University, where I shipped features like an AI tutor to help personalize the learning journeys of our students.

Each project sharpened my mission: unlock human potential at the crossroads of product, growth, EdTech, and community. Fulfilled humans build better futures, my job is to give them the tools.


When I’m not shipping, you’ll find me perfecting salsa and bachata footwork or tinkering with AI hacks that make everyday life smoother.

That curiosity pushed me to ship everything from a community app to a 3D-printed chocolate startup, an e-commerce coffee brand, and a government policy role. Most fizzled fast. Best MBA money can't buy. But a few stuck.

My first startup: Workit.

Workit was a career community for tech talent. Launched three cohort-based programs with 87% CSAT.

Built mentor roster from Stripe, Netflix, GitLab.

I then decided to work at Tomorrow University, where I shipped features like an AI tutor to help personalize the learning journeys of our students.

Each project sharpened my mission: unlock human potential at the crossroads of product, growth, EdTech, and community. Fulfilled humans build better futures, my job is to give them the tools.


When I’m not shipping, you’ll find me perfecting salsa and bachata footwork or tinkering with AI hacks that make everyday life smoother.

That curiosity pushed me to ship everything from a community app to a 3D-printed chocolate startup, an e-commerce coffee brand, and a government policy role. Most fizzled fast. Best MBA money can't buy.

But a few stuck.

My first startup: Workit.

Workit was a career community for tech talent. Launched three cohort-based programs with 87% CSAT.

Built mentor roster from Stripe, Netflix, GitLab.

I then decided to work at Tomorrow University, where I shipped features like an AI tutor to help personalize the learning journeys of our students.

Each project sharpened my mission: unlock human potential at the crossroads of product, growth, EdTech, and community. Fulfilled humans build better futures, my job is to give them the tools.


When I’m not shipping, you’ll find me perfecting salsa and bachata footwork or tinkering with AI hacks that make everyday life smoother.

How I Got Here

How I Got Here

Products I've Shipped

Tomorrow University

AI learning coach with 80% adoption

TestGorilla

Growth PM driving marketplace activation

Workit

Cohort-based learning platform, 0→1

Tomorrow University

Senior PM

Built Tomorrow U's first AI-powered learning coach from scratch.


  • Hit 80% student adoption in the first month and cut support tickets by 20%.


  • Also shipped an onboarding flow that increased activation by 80% in 60 days, went from signup to first learning content with Product Qualified Lead scoring baked in.


  • Led the roadmap with the Founder/CPO, tied every feature to quarterly OKRs and our North Star metric.


  • The result? Students got personalized help when they needed it, and we validated that AI could actually improve learning outcomes, not just automate busywork.

TestGorilla

Lead PM

Led a growth squad at a high-growth SaaS marketplace helping companies hire based on skills, not resumes.


  • Shipped the "State of Skills-Based Hiring 2024" report—coordinated Product, Marketing, and Sales to turn research into a lead-gen engine. Result: 20% increase in lead activation in 30 days.


  • Built a growth product development strategy and process that increased squad velocity by 30% and cut experiment cycle time by 25%.


  • All remote, all cross-functional (Sales, CS, Eng), all focused on one thing: getting companies to hire better.

Workit

Head of Growth

Built Workit from 0→1—a cohort-based learning platform for tech PMs.


  • Interviewed 100+ prospects, shipped an MVP with Zoom + Slack + Notion (90% free validation), and iterated weekly based on feedback.


  • Hit 87% CSAT and 89% completion rates. For context, MOOCs average under 10% completion.


  • The secret? Accountability over content. Peer-to-peer learning with live mentors from Stripe, Netflix, GitLab, and Workday. Grew the mentor network from 0 to 30+ senior leaders.


  • Proof that community beats lectures every time.

Tomorrow University

AI learning coach with 80% adoption

TestGorilla

Growth PM driving marketplace activation

Workit

Cohort-based learning platform, 0→1

Tomorrow University

Senior PM

Built Tomorrow U's first AI-powered learning coach from scratch.


  • Hit 80% student adoption in the first month and cut support tickets by 20%.


  • Also shipped an onboarding flow that increased activation by 80% in 60 days, went from signup to first learning content with Product Qualified Lead scoring baked in.


  • Led the roadmap with the Founder/CPO, tied every feature to quarterly OKRs and our North Star metric.


  • The result? Students got personalized help when they needed it, and we validated that AI could actually improve learning outcomes, not just automate busywork.

TestGorilla

Lead PM

Led a growth squad at a high-growth SaaS marketplace helping companies hire based on skills, not resumes.


  • Shipped the "State of Skills-Based Hiring 2024" report—coordinated Product, Marketing, and Sales to turn research into a lead-gen engine. Result: 20% increase in lead activation in 30 days.


  • Built a growth product development strategy and process that increased squad velocity by 30% and cut experiment cycle time by 25%.


  • All remote, all cross-functional (Sales, CS, Eng), all focused on one thing: getting companies to hire better.

Workit

Head of Growth

Built Workit from 0→1—a cohort-based learning platform for tech PMs.


  • Interviewed 100+ prospects, shipped an MVP with Zoom + Slack + Notion (90% free validation), and iterated weekly based on feedback.


  • Hit 87% CSAT and 89% completion rates. For context, MOOCs average under 10% completion.


  • The secret? Accountability over content. Peer-to-peer learning with live mentors from Stripe, Netflix, GitLab, and Workday. Grew the mentor network from 0 to 30+ senior leaders.


  • Proof that community beats lectures every time.

Tomorrow University

AI learning coach with 80% adoption

TestGorilla

Growth PM driving marketplace activation

Workit

Cohort-based learning platform, 0→1

Tomorrow University

Senior PM

Built Tomorrow U's first AI-powered learning coach from scratch.


  • Hit 80% student adoption in the first month and cut support tickets by 20%.


  • Also shipped an onboarding flow that increased activation by 80% in 60 days, went from signup to first learning content with Product Qualified Lead scoring baked in.


  • Led the roadmap with the Founder/CPO, tied every feature to quarterly OKRs and our North Star metric.


  • The result? Students got personalized help when they needed it, and we validated that AI could actually improve learning outcomes, not just automate busywork.

TestGorilla

Lead PM

Led a growth squad at a high-growth SaaS marketplace helping companies hire based on skills, not resumes.


  • Shipped the "State of Skills-Based Hiring 2024" report—coordinated Product, Marketing, and Sales to turn research into a lead-gen engine. Result: 20% increase in lead activation in 30 days.


  • Built a growth product development strategy and process that increased squad velocity by 30% and cut experiment cycle time by 25%.


  • All remote, all cross-functional (Sales, CS, Eng), all focused on one thing: getting companies to hire better.

Workit

Head of Growth

Built Workit from 0→1—a cohort-based learning platform for tech PMs.


  • Interviewed 100+ prospects, shipped an MVP with Zoom + Slack + Notion (90% free validation), and iterated weekly based on feedback.


  • Hit 87% CSAT and 89% completion rates. For context, MOOCs average under 10% completion.


  • The secret? Accountability over content. Peer-to-peer learning with live mentors from Stripe, Netflix, GitLab, and Workday. Grew the mentor network from 0 to 30+ senior leaders.


  • Proof that community beats lectures every time.

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