Welcome to Startup Fiction: the best place on the Internet to bring the story of your company to life.

My name is Ernie Prabhakar. I spent 17 years at Apple during the Second Coming of Steve Jobs telling the story of Open Source and Open Standards. I’ve spent the last seven years as a Spiritual Entrepreneur working with and for startups, helping them solidify their grasp of the future. I’ve been an immigrant, physicist, management consultant, career counselor, and high-school dropout.

The common thread through all those activities is “sense-making” – converting piles of loosely-connected facts into a coherent, compelling narrative. My specialty is writing near-future science fiction, where engaging characters wrestle with the consequences of technological and social innovation.

Contact me for a free story consultation, where I help your team articulate the dreams, emotions, and struggles that define your startup journey. The first paid deliverable is a Culture Brief summarizing those insights, which you can also use for onboarding and other marketing efforts. After that I will pitch you a Story Blurb describing the main character and conflict, storyboard). Once you sign off on that, I will generate the final document.

I retain the right to republish it on my blog, but you will have a full commercial royalty-free license to use, distribute, remix, and create derivate works of the story and characters I create for you.

Pricing

Rate: $150/hour, $1K/day

• Consultation: 1st hour free
• Culture Brief: $500 (includes one round of revisions)
• Story Blurb: free (includes one revision)
• Final Document:
  • $500 internal-use only, OR
  • $1,000 full-commercial use