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Abi Raja
Milestone (age 22)
Co-founded PeerCDN, a peer-to-peer content delivery network startup, which was acquired by Yahoo in December 2013 at age 22, right after graduating from Stanford with a CS degree.
Abi Raja attended NUS High School of Mathematics & Science in Singapore (2005-2008) before studying Computer Science at Stanford University (2009-2013). He co-founded PeerCDN with Feross Aboukhadijeh and John Hiesey, building a WebRTC-based P2P CDN that was acquired by Yahoo in December 2013. He later worked at Yahoo, Palantir, and as Head of Engineering at Patio before creating screenshot-to-code (73K+ GitHub stars) in November 2023.
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Am I the next Abi Raja? →Starting point
Attended NUS High School of Mathematics & Science in Singapore (2005-2008) before Stanford CS (2009-2013); family background not documented beyond Singapore residence.
Current position (2025)
Founder of WhimsyWorks, building Screenshot to Code (73K+ GitHub stars) and Pico; previously Head of Engineering at Patio; based in San Francisco.
How this path compounded
01 Starting advantages
9/24 starting-position score
Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Frontier geography, Exceptional peer / cofounder.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Cohort percentile: 84
02 Built or converted leverage
15/25 multiplying-capacity score
Strongest observed levers:Complementary team, Domain proximity, Started serious reps before 20.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Cohort percentile: 82
03 Compounding trajectory
5 documented steps
The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.
Milestone at age 22
04 Observed career standing
T3 · Domain-recognized
Notable and widely recognized within the domain. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Abi Raja's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Abi Raja's leverage provenance
Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.
Started serious reps before 201/1
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Complementary team2/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Exceptional peer / cofounder (2/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Domain proximity2/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Direct domain exposure (1/2)Frontier geography (2/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)
Prior reps2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Scarce skill depth2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Elite ecosystem network2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Frontier geography (2/2)Exceptional peer / cofounder (2/2)
Concentration intensity2/3
Unresolvedlow confidence
No current annotation distinguishes self-built, enabled, or earned origins for this lever.
No decisive linked signal
Native distribution1/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Early online platform (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)
Structural wave / timing1/3
Externalmedium confidence
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
Frontier geography (2/2)Early online platform (1/2)
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Abi Raja's outcome attributable to any origin.
Luck is not a leftover score.Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.
Within Founders / operators, Abi Raja's starting-advantage total is at the 84th percentile. Separately, their built or converted leverage total is at the 82th percentile. Other T3 profiles average 7.0 / 24 starting advantage and 11.7 / 25 leverage. Similar scores appear in other tiers, so these figures describe positioning—not a cause.
Trajectory
- 2013 · age 22
Co-founded PeerCDN, a WebRTC-based P2P CDN startup
With Feross Aboukhadijeh and John Hiesey after graduating Stanford.
- 2013 · age 22
PeerCDN acquired by Yahoo in December 2013
Joined Yahoo's media engineering team.
- 2014 · age 23
Worked at Yahoo rebuilding the world's 4th largest video player
The ground up.
- 2023 · age 32
Created screenshot-to-code
An AI tool converting screenshots to code, which went viral on GitHub (73K+ stars).
- 2024 · age 33
Founded WhimsyWorks to commercialize screenshot-to-code and Pico.
Primary leverage engine
Technical depth
Scarce technical / intellectual depth
Secondary engine
Network / capital
Built/converted leverage
15 / 25
evidence: Medium
Built or converted leverage
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Started serious reps before 20
1/1
Elite ecosystem network
2/3
Structural wave / timing
1/3
Concentration intensity
2/3
Starting-advantage scores (0–2 each)
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Family financial platform
0/2
Parent / family domain
0/2
Inherited audience / network
0/2
Elite institution pipeline
2/2
Dedicated mentor / coach
0/2
Exceptional peer / cofounder
2/2
Direct domain exposure
1/2
Prodigy / innate ability
1/2
Adversity / constraint catalyst
0/2
Family context
Attended NUS High School of Mathematics & Science in Singapore, suggesting family was based in Singapore during his teenage years. Specific family financial background not documented.
Parent / family domain
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Archetype & tags
Elite performance pipelineStanford CSNUS High SchoolPeerCDN co-foundersSilicon ValleyWebRTC frontier
Evidence summary
Abi Raja attended NUS High School of Mathematics & Science in Singapore and Stanford University (CS, 2009-2013), placing him in elite educational pipelines from a young age. He co-founded PeerCDN with Feross Aboukhadijeh and John Hiesey right after Stanford, and the company was acquired by Yahoo in December 2013 at age ~22. Note: CSV lists birth_year 1997, but Stanford attendance (2009-2013) and NUS High School (2005-2008) strongly indicate birth year ~1991. screenshot-to-code (73K+ GitHub stars) was created in November 2023 at age ~32, well past 26. Family background is not documented beyond Singapore-based education.
advantage confidence: Medium · source count: 5 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: subagent_researched_beta
Sources
Related — same primary engine