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Anik’s Story

Most people spend their lives mastering a single discipline.Anik has spent his studying what happens between them.

Born and raised in Stockholm, he started with dance. By nine, he had taken over a national TV broadcast for a day. By thirteen, he was teaching Popping to adults twice his age. By nineteen, he was competing at the Juste Debout world finals in Paris, known in the street dance world as Anik Coco Pops. In 2012 he became the first Swedish street dancer featured by YAK Films, and in 2014 he reached the final of Sweden's Got Talent.

While the dance record grew, so did another one. Around 2010 he picked up a camera and went deep into fashion photography, shooting some of Europe's best-known fashion bloggers and, at Paris Fashion Week, Kanye West. From there he spent over fifteen years in design and technology, leading design systems and digital products for institutions like Nordea, Swedbank, Telia, PostNord, and 3M, and earned his first million dollars consulting for some of Sweden's largest companies. More recently that work went AI-first: he is Head of AI Transformations at DeGaming, leading AI across its iGaming platform and Web3 player experience, and directed frontend and product design for FenoMark Diagnostics' cancer-diagnostics platform. He has also advised Södra, Sweden's largest forestry cooperative, on its AI transformation.

From 2017 to 2022 he was co-founder and Chief Product Officer of THXRD, a creator economy startup built together with Quincy Jones III and mentored by Quincy Jones himself. That chapter put him on stage at Polar Talks during the 2019 Polar Music Prize, and had him showing Usher, ASAP Rocky, and Naomi Campbell the culture of Stockholm and its suburbs.

Creativity is not chaos. It is a system.

To the world it looked scattered. To him it was the same method wearing different clothes: break the craft down, find the pattern, drill it until it holds. Every discipline wired into the next.

Today, he is Founder and CEO of Wired to Create, a holding company building AI-native ventures across technology, media, and commerce. Among them: Karo, an AI-native commerce platform whose IP was independently valued by a European investment bank, and Prince Kim, a global artist project he manages, architects, and directs, from the brand and the launch strategy to the visuals, the music, and the documentary that captures the build.

His thesis is simple: the biggest breakthroughs don't come from deeper specialization. They come from connecting disciplines that were never supposed to meet. His mission is to build the infrastructure for a new generation of creative polymaths, people who move between fields, combine them, and create value through synthesis.

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