# Rina Takikawa **building a video intelligence and growth engine for creators @tempo** — Los Angeles, CA, United States > if we’ve never met IRL/on call, please include a note when sending a connection request 🩵 ----things that keep my eyes sparkling consumer behavior analysis, product led growth, consumer fintech, consumer to consumer marketplaces, the creator economy, anything that shows #s and a story behind those #s + a projection with #s, R&D, understanding how to optimize human performance with science, body mechanics, biomechanics, and any historical fact you can give me ----past speaking shopify onsite guest speaker 2024 ux copenhagen main stage speaker 2023 careerfoundry guest + panelist 2024, 2023, 2021 Ideate labs guest speaker 2021 university of arizona guest speaker 2021 ----mentions in @businessinsider @businessinsiderjapan @buzzfeed @builtintech ---- 🌎 currently based in Los Angeles, grew up in SG & NYC, and had a couple of adventures in between in Barcelona and Tokyo. Most comfortable w/ English and Japanese, somewhat conversational in Spanish. Career Archetype: **Beacon Artisan** (RE-MX) — One of the first Beacon Artisans on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rinatakikawa ## Experience ### Design Engineer Fellow, Andreessen Horowitz (2026-06 – present) San Francisco Bay Area · Inaugural cohort ### Learning about the Asia Market, Techstars (2025-07 – 2026-06) Tokyo, Japan · Techstars is a pre-seed and early stage venture capital firm. The Tokyo branch is the only Asian accelerator program of Techstars, and is supported by JETRO and Mitsui Fudosan, in cooperation with the Cabinet Office, Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry, and Tokyo Metropolitan Government. ### Dancer, Summer R&D, New English Ballet Theatre (2025-07 – 2025-08) London Area, United Kingdom · Dual career experiment. One of the 6 dancers selected to join the company for R&D works. With Valentino Zucchetti (First Soloist of Royal Ballet), Jordan James Bridge (former dancer of Company Wayne McGregor) and Marika Brussel (International choreographer) ### Founding Team, Radical Tempo (2024-08 – present) Los Angeles, CA · building the infrastructure for modern content operations. ### Growth Design, Speaker, Shopify (2024-02 – 2024-02) New York City Metropolitan Area · Invited to speak at Shopify's design offsite in NYC, where I gave a talk on growth design (retention, churn, behavioral psychology, data analysis) to their design team of 25 staff/senior level PDs and CDs. ### Main Stage Speaker, UX Copenhagen (2023-03 – 2023-03) Copenhagen · was invited to take part in the 2023 conference. youngest main stage speaker ### Founding Team (Design, Research, Product), Mooch (2021-07 – 2024-02) Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · built a $15M B2C fintech built up ux research, design, and product ops $8M txn, L90 93% retention, 500K community (exit via acquisition in feb'24) top #8 apps on Tiktok top 10 best budgeting apps by U.S News winner of LATTITUDE fintech mash up 2022 awarded most Innovative personal finance & budgeting app 2022 backed by f7 ventures, bee partners, hustle fund, MH ventures...etc ### built a 1-person product/design/research agency, Various Companies (2021-06 – 2024-09) Stealth AI, Stealth/Seed Fintechs, YC startups, gen-z social app, consumer hardware startup ### Guest Speaker, University of Arizona (2021-02 – 2021-02) guest speaker for the grad class of 2021 ### Guest Speaker, Freelance (2020-11 – 2025-12) UC San Diego | Hackathon Judge | May 2026 Shopify | Onsite Speaker | February 2024 CareerFoundry | Guest Speaker | November 2023 UX Copenhagen | Main Stage Speaker | March 2023 Women in Tech Panel with Google & Stripe | Panel | March 2023 Triangirls UK | Guest Speaker | May 2021 Ideate Labs | Guest Speaker | May 2021 University of Arizona | Guest Speaker | February 2021 GirlGenius | December 2020 Project Snapshot | November 2020 ### designing, building, exploring, Self-employed (2020-08 – 2021-08) New York, NY · > cofounder of a social app for pet parents built for ios + android (part of Pennovation Accelerator) > took part in design hackathons (top 15 award) > documented my career change journey on Youtube (~68.4K views total generated) > In/Visible Talks 2021 Recipient > designed for a top 10 food tech startup and some others ### 🩰, IBStage (2019-07 – 2019-08) Barcelona ### Internship, American Ballet Theatre (2019-06 – 2019-07) New York City Metropolitan Area ### 🩰, Ballet de Catalunya (2019-01 – 2019-01) Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area ### Professional Ballet Track, all around (2009-08 – 2019-08) Singapore, Japan, New York, Cincinnati · > Signed first contract to join the National Ballet de Catalunya at 19y/o > U.S Prix de Ballet Silver Prize Winner & Japan Grand Prix Finalist at 18y/o > Worked with Jessica Lang to perform her piece at Lincoln Center at 14y/o > Recipient of Tony Bennett and Susan Beneditto award at 14y/o ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, University of Cincinnati ### Arts Endorsed Diploma in Dance, Frank Sinatra School of The Arts High School ## Skills Generative AI, Software as a Service (SaaS), SQL, Figma (Software), InVision, Notion, GTM, Mobile Interface Design, Research Methods, Case Studies, Design Tools, Diagramming, Mobile Applications, Growth Design, Product Analysis, Design Research, Quantitative Research, Behavioral Psychology, Product Analytics, FinTech, A/B Testing, Product Strategy, Mixed Methods Research, Data Ethics, Event Management, Non-profit Board Leadership, Content Design, Public Speaking, English, Japanese, Spanish ## Credentials - **Fintech Mashup Winner** — L'ATTITUDE VENTURES (issued 2022-09) - **Fintech Awards Winner: Most Innovative Personal Finance & Budgeting App** — Wealth & Finance International (issued 2022-07) - **Silver Prize 2nd Place, Senior Classical** — U.S Prix de Ballet (issued 2018-06) ## AI Stack - **Claude** (https://claude.ai) - **ChatGPT** (https://chatgpt.com) --- Source: https://saywise.com/rina (last modified 2026-08-12T18:29:36.537Z)