Short Bio:
Abe Cajudo is a multi-hyphenate creative who directs big ideas through web, video and crowdfunding campaigns.
Medium Bio:
Hi! I’m Abe, and I’m a multi-hyphenate creative and entrepreneur from Long Beach, CA. I work with other creatives and entrepreneurs to direct big ideas through web, video and crowdfunding campaigns. Top-shelf themes running throughout my projects are innovation, versatility, intersections, and play. I value collaboration, hard work, and always, always, finding a way. My creativity comes from a mash-up of mediums, including film, XR, music, design, and online education. I’m a big picture person who enjoys connecting people, culture, and ideas that might otherwise go unnoticed. I believe that there are plenty of cool stories yet to tell, much good to be done, and more amazing people to meet and work with.
Long Bio (8 random facts):
- I was born on an island in the South Pacific on the same day as a famous Earth, Wind & Fire song.
- From age 9-20 music was my life. I played the trumpet, sung R&B, marched snare in a drum line and even toured with a Drum & Bugle Corps.
- I worked in instructional design building online art classes, designing multimedia presentations, and helping run a professional video and voiceover studio for almost 5 years. I created systems to convert, edit, and manage a library of nearly 10,000 videos for educational distribution. I quickly became the go-to guy in the online division of the company for anything and everything video related. I eat codecs for breakfast. With bacon.
- I co-wrote, directed, and produced a $15,000, 70+ member stage production at the age of 21. I also acted in a scene, helped score the music, build the set, design the playbill, and did all of the multi-camera editing and authoring for the DVD. Time of my life.
- I’ve edited everything from sketch comedy shorts to commercials to 3D animated video game trailers shown at E3 (The Electronic Entertainment Expo).
- I believe everything is connected and everyone is relevant.
- I was one of three guys in my senior class of 400 accepted to a UC (University of California) right after high school. The other two were the Salutatorian and the Class President. And me, the anomaly with nothing special to his name.
- I cook. I clean. I care about kids. Mama had a daycare. Mama taught me well. 🙂
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Name: Abraham Cajudo
Nicknames: Abe; “Who the hell is this guy?”
Superhero alias: I have two – Abeimus and Baberaham
Age: Beginner
Theme song: Outkast – So Fresh and So Clean
Style icon: Pharrell
Ultimate joy: Immersed in the moment where time disappears
Proudest moment: Saved by grace
Lowest slump: Leaving friends and the lifestyle I loved to search for answers to problems we couldn’t solve with our current level of thinking or collective experience–to become a breakthrough leader, for them and the future of our community.
Brag-worthy accolade: Seth Godin called me for advice once, which was pretty cool…
Arch-nemesis: Time
Arch-angel: Pam Slim, my entrepreneurial mentor and fairy godauntie with an MMA black belt.
Ultimate quote: A line of dialogue I wrote in a play, said in a thick Filipino accent: “It’s all relative, my relative.”
Signature catchphrase: “Put some stank on it.”
Power-chakra: I don’t know what that is. Is that like The Weirding Way in the movie Dune?
Totem animal: Liger.
Thanks to Alexandra Franzen for the bio prompts.