Zero-to-One Product Executive. Media Founder. World Builder.
Tarus D. Stills is a creative product executive, producer, and world builder whose career sits at the intersection of technology, media, storytelling, and audience experience.
Across his career, Tarus has led product, content, design, and programming work spanning streaming media, sports technology, educational technology, and interactive entertainment. His experience includes senior leadership roles at HBCU GO and Genius Sports, where he helped build platforms, shape audience experiences, and connect product strategy with content, technology, and business goals. Earlier in his career, as a product leader at Primal Screen, he led work across Amira Learning, Cartoon Network, the NBA, and other entertainment and education brands.
Tarus is also a founder and zero-to-one builder. Through Cuttclass, he developed a streaming and creator platform connecting independent filmmakers, content partners, and audiences. His production background—including producing a feature film and short-form content—grounds his leadership in the craft of making things, not just managing the people who make them.
Today, Tarus is applying that experience to original intellectual property as the creator of Caiden’s Courage, a children's story world expanding across graphic novels, interactive learning experiences, games, media, and education.
His work blends the strategic discipline of product leadership with the imagination of a creative director: defining the vision, understanding the audience, shaping the story, building the product, and creating the systems that allow an idea to grow into a world. Tarus is particularly interested in the future of children's media, interactive storytelling, creative technology, AI-enabled experiences, and the ways entertainment can inspire curiosity, confidence, and learning.
Stories should create more storytellers.
Beyond building products and media, I believe in showing up for the next generation of creators. I support young storytellers, educators, and programs creating opportunities for children to see their ideas taken seriously.
Whether through publishing, interactive learning, mentorship, or community programs, I'm especially interested in helping young people turn imagination into something they can hold, share, and build upon.
Supporting the next generation of young authors and creators.
Caiden’s Courage — Original IP + Interactive Learning Platform
From graphic novel to connected story world.
Caiden’s Courage is an original children’s IP I created and developed across publishing, interactive products, games, education, and media.
What began as a graphic novel has grown into a connected ecosystem designed around one simple idea:
Read. Explore. Continue.
Kids begin with the story, extend the experience through creative activities and reflection, and continue inside an interactive platform featuring missions, characters, rewards, and learning experiences.
The project brings together the disciplines that have shaped my career — product strategy, creative direction, UX, storytelling, filmmaking, and technology — into one evolving world.
