Break a comparison
You are not the next Rohan Puri.
That is not pessimism. It is precision. You can study this path, but you cannot inherit its conditions, replay its sequence, or schedule its luck.
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Keep the mechanisms. Drop the identity. Rohan Puri was a research specialist at MIT Media Lab where he co-invented a biometric identification sensing technology called 'Zensei' in collaboration with Google, and co-instructed a graduate-level course on computational imaging at MIT. He founded Stable Auto in 2017 with co-founder Jamie Schiel, pivoting from hardware to software after realizing the real bottleneck in EV charging was the business case, not the hardware. The company uses AI to analyze prospective EV charging sites and predict long-term profitability.
The same three questions everywhere
Where did this path's conditions come from?
The layers are read side by side and never added into a person score.
The marble itself
What they brought
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Research specialist at MIT Media Lab who co-invented biometric identification technology (Zensei) in collaboration with Google. Co-instructed a graduate-level course on computational imaging at MIT. Founded Stable Auto at ~18. Exceptional early research achievement at an elite institution.
Where it was dropped
What they were handed
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No family background information available. MIT Media Lab position suggests strong academic preparation but no evidence of family wealth or domain connections.
The shape of the track
What surrounded them
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MIT Media Lab provided the elite institutional environment, research resources, and Google collaboration. Met co-founder Jamie Schiel in the Camera Culture group. MIT E14 Fund and Ubiquity Ventures backed Stable Auto. The MIT Media Lab ecosystem was trajectory-changing.
Two forces, no new scores
Perseverance and luck both matter.
Documented perseveranceContinued leading Stable Auto as CEOThis records repeated behaviour or recovery described by sources; it is not a grit or merit score.
Encounter luckMet co-founder Jamie Schiel in the Camera Culture group.This is an unchosen opening or condition in the record, not an estimate of how much luck caused the outcome.
Sequence matters
These conditions arrived in this order.
A different order is a different path—even when some ingredients look familiar.
- 2017 · age 18Co-founded Stable Auto with Jamie Schiel after working together
MIT Media Lab on sensing and machine learning projects.
- 2019 · age 20Stable Auto raised initial funding from MIT E14
Ubiquity Ventures, and Trucks Venture Capital.
- 2022 · age 23Company expanded to work with major utilities
Charging operators across the US.
- 2024 · age 25Stable Auto raised total of $14M
Spoke at EV Charging Infrastructure Summit and RE+ 2024.
What transfers
- Mechanisms worth understanding.
- Examples of repeated work.
- Questions to ask about your own conditions.
What cannot transfer
- An identity, timeline, or outcome.
- Unchosen encounters and structural timing.
- A probability of becoming Rohan Puri.
The useful conclusion
Return to your own unfinished path.
Use this record for information, never for a verdict about your pace or worth.