YE Stack
Joined when it was just an ambitious entrepreneurial community, watched it evolve into a venture studio, and now we're on a mission that's way bigger than building startups. We're building the thinking infrastructure for the age of generative intelligence. What started as learning the art of venture building has become pioneering Cognition Infrastructure, the missing layer that actually makes all this AI useful instead of just overwhelming.
The Mission
Building Cognition Infrastructure for the age of AI
Right now, I'm working on something way bigger than building individual startups at YE Stack.
Here's the problem we see: AI is everywhere now. Everyone's got ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and a dozen other tools. But instead of making us more capable, we're drowning. More information, more outputs, more options. But are we actually thinking better? Making better decisions? Building better things?
Most people are using AI like a better search engine or a faster typist. But that's not the transformation we need. The real opportunity isn't about generating more content. It's about augmenting how humans actually think and make decisions.
That's what we mean by Cognition Infrastructure. It's the missing layer between raw AI capability and actual human intelligence amplification. Think of it like this: right now, we have incredible AI engines, but no transmission system to actually channel that power into better human thinking. We're building that transmission system.
What does this look like in practice? Instead of AI giving you a wall of text that you have to parse and synthesize yourself, Cognition Infrastructure helps you structure your thinking process, maintain context across complex decisions, connect insights across different domains, and build on previous knowledge in ways that compound over time.
We're not building another AI model. We're building the infrastructure that makes AI actually useful for the complex, nuanced thinking that matters. Strategic decisions, creative breakthroughs, connecting disparate ideas, building coherent understanding over time.
This is bigger than any single startup we could build. This is about creating the foundation for how humanity will work with AI for the next decade and beyond. YE Stack evolved from an entrepreneurship community to a venture studio, and now we're building the infrastructure layer that will enable the next generation of human capability.
My role? Even though I'm not a co-founder, I play an EiR role in shaping this product so we can execute the grand vision we've always had. YE Stack is a huge part of my identity and I feel it as much as my own as probably Arun and Anand. I work across product, branding, distribution, design. It's not the same day-in, day-out work. That's part of taking on the Generalist role.
The ambition is massive. But that's exactly why it matters. If we get this right, we're not just building a product. We're building the thinking infrastructure for an entire era.
The Discovery
How a conversation about ambition rewired everything
Here's a funny story about how I stumbled into the community that would completely rewire my understanding of what's possible in life.
Picture this: me and my friends at a college festival competition, doing absolutely nothing until the last day when one friend quickly mocked up a design prototype for a city-based social media app. While everyone else was building cool robotics and real apps, we had a few screens that would probably crash if anyone else tried to navigate them.
Enter Anand, a 25-year-old super senior judging the competition. When he came to review our "product," we strategically navigated it ourselves, knowing it would fall apart if he touched anything. But then he started asking the real questions: What's the vision? How do you make money? What's the strategy?
Me, being naturally good at making stuff up on the spot, improvised answers that somehow impressed him. Who knows what I actually said. I don't even remember. But something clicked, because he reached out afterward and told us about this incredible vision he and his co-founder Arun had: bringing together ambitious young folks to build something big.
What really grabbed me were the conversations over our first two meetings. We weren't talking about building random products or ideas. We were talking about big ambition. Huge value creation. How if you find the right people who are entrepreneurially aligned, people who refuse to settle, then you've got something real. This was a completely different lens on what was possible.
That was late 2019. What I didn't realize then was that this was the beginning of an entirely new portal opening up. Over time, I would see opportunity after opportunity in entrepreneurship, each one expanding my mental models of what I could build and who I could become. YE Stack didn't just introduce me to startups. It fundamentally changed how I saw the world and my place in it.
The Transformation
From consuming to building
We lost touch for a bit after they tested our coding skills (spoiler: we passed), but then COVID hit and college shut down. Bored during lockdown, I reached out to Arun asking what was up. That's when I discovered they were starting Mastermind Clubs. These were entrepreneurship groups where students would discuss books, articles, and resources Arun shared.
One of our first assignments was reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." Even though I don't rate that book highly now, it completely changed my worldview and got me into reading non-fiction. That journey opened up a new world I never went back from. We'd listen to Zig Ziglar audio clips and discuss frameworks that rewired how I thought about everything and teach me new stuff everyday.
The clubs eventually spread to other colleges, but people came and went. What stuck was the core community of builders who were actually doing things. Being exposed to real business opportunities and meeting people who were making things happen opened my eyes to possibilities I'd never imagined.
But the real transformation wasn't just about the projects or the frameworks. It was about spending time with Arun and Anand, two mentors who opened my eyes to so many worldviews that I became a completely different person. More patient, learning-focused, always open to new things and new people, approaching the world with new levels of curiosity.
"You are the average of who you spend your time with"
It gave me the feeling that the world was out there to just go and get it. There's truth in that saying, and being around highly ambitious folks changes everything.
Before YE Stack, if you'd asked me what I wanted to be, I might have said "CEO of Google." After YE Stack, I was thinking "I could build the next Google, or something way bigger than Google." The sky became the limit.
The Builder's Journey
Roles, experiments, and learning
YE Stack evolved as I evolved. When I joined, it was a small-focused community with a culture of enabling people. Not pointing the way, but giving them the right variables to make the best choices for themselves. This philosophy shaped everything we did.
My role evolved too. I started purely exploratory, trying to extract maximum value for myself. Then YE Stack gave me opportunities to try everything. Building TGH Tech. Launching CineTokens. Creating Meeval. Some of these worked, some didn't, but each one taught me something about building and building true while keeping my values intact.
I primarily take an EiR role that lets me operate with my breadth as a generalist. YE Stack has been the constant thread enabling my journey, giving me the freedom to experiment while maintaining a foundation I could always come back to.
What I learned through all of this: building isn't just about the product or the pitch. It's about understanding what you're solving, who you're solving it for, and having the patience to iterate until you get it right. YE Stack didn't hand me answers. They helped me develop the thinking to find my own.
The Vision
Where ambition meets mission
I strongly believe in that original YE Stack vision of building something huge and ambitious for the world. Even though I'm not a co-founder, I want to play a pivotal role in shaping this so that we can execute the grand vision we've always had.
Here's what I've realized: when you place an identity bigger than anything ahead of your own selfish interests, you tend to do your best and most important work. That's what drives me about Cognition Infrastructure. It's not about building another SaaS tool, it's about fundamentally changing how humans interface with intelligence.
But I also see YE Stack as the launchpad I'm building for myself. All the leverage I've accumulated here (the skills, the network, the understanding of how to build ambitious things) is the foundation for everything else I want to do and build for the world, until the day I die.
The crazy part? Sometimes I wonder what trajectory my life would have taken without that random college competition and these random meetings. I was always ambitious, but YE Stack took me from "I want to be the CEO of Google" to "I could build something way bigger than Google." That's the real transformation YE Stack created.
The Mission
Building Cognition Infrastructure for the age of AI
Right now, I'm working on something way bigger than building individual startups at YE Stack.
Here's the problem we see: AI is everywhere now. Everyone's got ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and a dozen other tools. But instead of making us more capable, we're drowning. More information, more outputs, more options. But are we actually thinking better? Making better decisions? Building better things?
Most people are using AI like a better search engine or a faster typist. But that's not the transformation we need. The real opportunity isn't about generating more content. It's about augmenting how humans actually think and make decisions.
That's what we mean by Cognition Infrastructure. It's the missing layer between raw AI capability and actual human intelligence amplification. Think of it like this: right now, we have incredible AI engines, but no transmission system to actually channel that power into better human thinking. We're building that transmission system.
What does this look like in practice? Instead of AI giving you a wall of text that you have to parse and synthesize yourself, Cognition Infrastructure helps you structure your thinking process, maintain context across complex decisions, connect insights across different domains, and build on previous knowledge in ways that compound over time.
We're not building another AI model. We're building the infrastructure that makes AI actually useful for the complex, nuanced thinking that matters. Strategic decisions, creative breakthroughs, connecting disparate ideas, building coherent understanding over time.
This is bigger than any single startup we could build. This is about creating the foundation for how humanity will work with AI for the next decade and beyond. YE Stack evolved from an entrepreneurship community to a venture studio, and now we're building the infrastructure layer that will enable the next generation of human capability.
My role? Even though I'm not a co-founder, I play an EiR role in shaping this product so we can execute the grand vision we've always had. YE Stack is a huge part of my identity and I feel it as much as my own as probably Arun and Anand. I work across product, branding, distribution, design. It's not the same day-in, day-out work. That's part of taking on the Generalist role.
The ambition is massive. But that's exactly why it matters. If we get this right, we're not just building a product. We're building the thinking infrastructure for an entire era.
The Discovery
How a conversation about ambition rewired everything
Here's a funny story about how I stumbled into the community that would completely rewire my understanding of what's possible in life.
Picture this: me and my friends at a college festival competition, doing absolutely nothing until the last day when one friend quickly mocked up a design prototype for a city-based social media app. While everyone else was building cool robotics and real apps, we had a few screens that would probably crash if anyone else tried to navigate them.
Enter Anand, a 25-year-old super senior judging the competition. When he came to review our "product," we strategically navigated it ourselves, knowing it would fall apart if he touched anything. But then he started asking the real questions: What's the vision? How do you make money? What's the strategy?
Me, being naturally good at making stuff up on the spot, improvised answers that somehow impressed him. Who knows what I actually said. I don't even remember. But something clicked, because he reached out afterward and told us about this incredible vision he and his co-founder Arun had: bringing together ambitious young folks to build something big.
What really grabbed me were the conversations over our first two meetings. We weren't talking about building random products or ideas. We were talking about big ambition. Huge value creation. How if you find the right people who are entrepreneurially aligned, people who refuse to settle, then you've got something real. This was a completely different lens on what was possible.
That was late 2019. What I didn't realize then was that this was the beginning of an entirely new portal opening up. Over time, I would see opportunity after opportunity in entrepreneurship, each one expanding my mental models of what I could build and who I could become. YE Stack didn't just introduce me to startups. It fundamentally changed how I saw the world and my place in it.
The Transformation
From consuming to building
We lost touch for a bit after they tested our coding skills (spoiler: we passed), but then COVID hit and college shut down. Bored during lockdown, I reached out to Arun asking what was up. That's when I discovered they were starting Mastermind Clubs. These were entrepreneurship groups where students would discuss books, articles, and resources Arun shared.
One of our first assignments was reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." Even though I don't rate that book highly now, it completely changed my worldview and got me into reading non-fiction. That journey opened up a new world I never went back from. We'd listen to Zig Ziglar audio clips and discuss frameworks that rewired how I thought about everything and teach me new stuff everyday.
The clubs eventually spread to other colleges, but people came and went. What stuck was the core community of builders who were actually doing things. Being exposed to real business opportunities and meeting people who were making things happen opened my eyes to possibilities I'd never imagined.
But the real transformation wasn't just about the projects or the frameworks. It was about spending time with Arun and Anand, two mentors who opened my eyes to so many worldviews that I became a completely different person. More patient, learning-focused, always open to new things and new people, approaching the world with new levels of curiosity.
"You are the average of who you spend your time with"
It gave me the feeling that the world was out there to just go and get it. There's truth in that saying, and being around highly ambitious folks changes everything.
Before YE Stack, if you'd asked me what I wanted to be, I might have said "CEO of Google." After YE Stack, I was thinking "I could build the next Google, or something way bigger than Google." The sky became the limit.
The Builder's Journey
Roles, experiments, and learning
YE Stack evolved as I evolved. When I joined, it was a small-focused community with a culture of enabling people. Not pointing the way, but giving them the right variables to make the best choices for themselves. This philosophy shaped everything we did.
My role evolved too. I started purely exploratory, trying to extract maximum value for myself. Then YE Stack gave me opportunities to try everything. Building TGH Tech. Launching CineTokens. Creating Meeval. Some of these worked, some didn't, but each one taught me something about building and building true while keeping my values intact.
I primarily take an EiR role that lets me operate with my breadth as a generalist. YE Stack has been the constant thread enabling my journey, giving me the freedom to experiment while maintaining a foundation I could always come back to.
What I learned through all of this: building isn't just about the product or the pitch. It's about understanding what you're solving, who you're solving it for, and having the patience to iterate until you get it right. YE Stack didn't hand me answers. They helped me develop the thinking to find my own.
The Vision
Where ambition meets mission
I strongly believe in that original YE Stack vision of building something huge and ambitious for the world. Even though I'm not a co-founder, I want to play a pivotal role in shaping this so that we can execute the grand vision we've always had.
Here's what I've realized: when you place an identity bigger than anything ahead of your own selfish interests, you tend to do your best and most important work. That's what drives me about Cognition Infrastructure. It's not about building another SaaS tool, it's about fundamentally changing how humans interface with intelligence.
But I also see YE Stack as the launchpad I'm building for myself. All the leverage I've accumulated here (the skills, the network, the understanding of how to build ambitious things) is the foundation for everything else I want to do and build for the world, until the day I die.
The crazy part? Sometimes I wonder what trajectory my life would have taken without that random college competition and these random meetings. I was always ambitious, but YE Stack took me from "I want to be the CEO of Google" to "I could build something way bigger than Google." That's the real transformation YE Stack created.
The Mission
Building Cognition Infrastructure for the age of AI
Right now, I'm working on something way bigger than building individual startups at YE Stack.
Here's the problem we see: AI is everywhere now. Everyone's got ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and a dozen other tools. But instead of making us more capable, we're drowning. More information, more outputs, more options. But are we actually thinking better? Making better decisions? Building better things?
Most people are using AI like a better search engine or a faster typist. But that's not the transformation we need. The real opportunity isn't about generating more content. It's about augmenting how humans actually think and make decisions.
That's what we mean by Cognition Infrastructure. It's the missing layer between raw AI capability and actual human intelligence amplification. Think of it like this: right now, we have incredible AI engines, but no transmission system to actually channel that power into better human thinking. We're building that transmission system.
What does this look like in practice? Instead of AI giving you a wall of text that you have to parse and synthesize yourself, Cognition Infrastructure helps you structure your thinking process, maintain context across complex decisions, connect insights across different domains, and build on previous knowledge in ways that compound over time.
We're not building another AI model. We're building the infrastructure that makes AI actually useful for the complex, nuanced thinking that matters. Strategic decisions, creative breakthroughs, connecting disparate ideas, building coherent understanding over time.
This is bigger than any single startup we could build. This is about creating the foundation for how humanity will work with AI for the next decade and beyond. YE Stack evolved from an entrepreneurship community to a venture studio, and now we're building the infrastructure layer that will enable the next generation of human capability.
My role? Even though I'm not a co-founder, I play an EiR role in shaping this product so we can execute the grand vision we've always had. YE Stack is a huge part of my identity and I feel it as much as my own as probably Arun and Anand. I work across product, branding, distribution, design. It's not the same day-in, day-out work. That's part of taking on the Generalist role.
The ambition is massive. But that's exactly why it matters. If we get this right, we're not just building a product. We're building the thinking infrastructure for an entire era.
The Discovery
How a conversation about ambition rewired everything
Here's a funny story about how I stumbled into the community that would completely rewire my understanding of what's possible in life.
Picture this: me and my friends at a college festival competition, doing absolutely nothing until the last day when one friend quickly mocked up a design prototype for a city-based social media app. While everyone else was building cool robotics and real apps, we had a few screens that would probably crash if anyone else tried to navigate them.
Enter Anand, a 25-year-old super senior judging the competition. When he came to review our "product," we strategically navigated it ourselves, knowing it would fall apart if he touched anything. But then he started asking the real questions: What's the vision? How do you make money? What's the strategy?
Me, being naturally good at making stuff up on the spot, improvised answers that somehow impressed him. Who knows what I actually said. I don't even remember. But something clicked, because he reached out afterward and told us about this incredible vision he and his co-founder Arun had: bringing together ambitious young folks to build something big.
What really grabbed me were the conversations over our first two meetings. We weren't talking about building random products or ideas. We were talking about big ambition. Huge value creation. How if you find the right people who are entrepreneurially aligned, people who refuse to settle, then you've got something real. This was a completely different lens on what was possible.
That was late 2019. What I didn't realize then was that this was the beginning of an entirely new portal opening up. Over time, I would see opportunity after opportunity in entrepreneurship, each one expanding my mental models of what I could build and who I could become. YE Stack didn't just introduce me to startups. It fundamentally changed how I saw the world and my place in it.
The Transformation
From consuming to building
We lost touch for a bit after they tested our coding skills (spoiler: we passed), but then COVID hit and college shut down. Bored during lockdown, I reached out to Arun asking what was up. That's when I discovered they were starting Mastermind Clubs. These were entrepreneurship groups where students would discuss books, articles, and resources Arun shared.
One of our first assignments was reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." Even though I don't rate that book highly now, it completely changed my worldview and got me into reading non-fiction. That journey opened up a new world I never went back from. We'd listen to Zig Ziglar audio clips and discuss frameworks that rewired how I thought about everything and teach me new stuff everyday.
The clubs eventually spread to other colleges, but people came and went. What stuck was the core community of builders who were actually doing things. Being exposed to real business opportunities and meeting people who were making things happen opened my eyes to possibilities I'd never imagined.
But the real transformation wasn't just about the projects or the frameworks. It was about spending time with Arun and Anand, two mentors who opened my eyes to so many worldviews that I became a completely different person. More patient, learning-focused, always open to new things and new people, approaching the world with new levels of curiosity.
"You are the average of who you spend your time with"
It gave me the feeling that the world was out there to just go and get it. There's truth in that saying, and being around highly ambitious folks changes everything.
Before YE Stack, if you'd asked me what I wanted to be, I might have said "CEO of Google." After YE Stack, I was thinking "I could build the next Google, or something way bigger than Google." The sky became the limit.
The Builder's Journey
Roles, experiments, and learning
YE Stack evolved as I evolved. When I joined, it was a small-focused community with a culture of enabling people. Not pointing the way, but giving them the right variables to make the best choices for themselves. This philosophy shaped everything we did.
My role evolved too. I started purely exploratory, trying to extract maximum value for myself. Then YE Stack gave me opportunities to try everything. Building TGH Tech. Launching CineTokens. Creating Meeval. Some of these worked, some didn't, but each one taught me something about building and building true while keeping my values intact.
I primarily take an EiR role that lets me operate with my breadth as a generalist. YE Stack has been the constant thread enabling my journey, giving me the freedom to experiment while maintaining a foundation I could always come back to.
What I learned through all of this: building isn't just about the product or the pitch. It's about understanding what you're solving, who you're solving it for, and having the patience to iterate until you get it right. YE Stack didn't hand me answers. They helped me develop the thinking to find my own.
The Vision
Where ambition meets mission
I strongly believe in that original YE Stack vision of building something huge and ambitious for the world. Even though I'm not a co-founder, I want to play a pivotal role in shaping this so that we can execute the grand vision we've always had.
Here's what I've realized: when you place an identity bigger than anything ahead of your own selfish interests, you tend to do your best and most important work. That's what drives me about Cognition Infrastructure. It's not about building another SaaS tool, it's about fundamentally changing how humans interface with intelligence.
But I also see YE Stack as the launchpad I'm building for myself. All the leverage I've accumulated here (the skills, the network, the understanding of how to build ambitious things) is the foundation for everything else I want to do and build for the world, until the day I die.
The crazy part? Sometimes I wonder what trajectory my life would have taken without that random college competition and these random meetings. I was always ambitious, but YE Stack took me from "I want to be the CEO of Google" to "I could build something way bigger than Google." That's the real transformation YE Stack created.
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If you'd like to know more about this and discuss synergies, feel free to ask with this form, or drop me an email.
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