Documented path
Early Bitcoin adopter since 2014; based in Bengaluru; sibling co-founder Roshni Aslam; Stanford GSB alumnus
Education: BE Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (VTU); Stanford GSB alumni
Founder at GoSats
Where the conditions came from
Each is placed on a −1 to 3 scale from documented evidence, and the three are never added together. A combined total would rank Mohammed Roshan against other people. Held apart, they explain why this path ran differently from another one—which is the only comparison this project supports.
The marble itself
+2Tailwind
What capability, drive, or early skill is documented in the person rather than their surroundings?
Self-taught from GitHub codebase. Early Bitcoin adopter since 2014. Created Saffroncoin (India's first cryptocurrency token) fresh out of college. Chief Scientist at Unocoin (India's first crypto exchange). Stanford GSB SEP executive program. Self-taught prodigy in blockchain with early domain expertise.
Where it was dropped
0Neither way
What money, family standing, network, or permission was already in place before the work began?
Based in Bengaluru. B.E. in Electronics and Communications from Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (not elite-tier). Co-founded GoSats with sister Roshni Aslam. No specific family wealth or tech industry connections mentioned. Limited resources — described as having 'limited resources' as an advantage archetype.
The shape of the track
+1Tailwind
What place, timing, institution, or peer group made the next step available?
GitHub and crypto community (online platform native). Bengaluru tech hub. Stanford GSB SEP executive program. Accel Atoms accelerator. Co-founded with sibling — family collaboration. Online crypto community provided self-education path. Limited elite institutional access before Stanford GSB program.
A −1 is a documented headwind, not a missing value; a 0 means the sources record nothing notable either way. Annotation confidence: Medium. These are analyst readings of what the sources record, not measurements of merit, talent, or effort. The twenty-two scored dimensions remain available inside the deeper research detail.
What moved through the conditions
Silence in a biography is not evidence that perseverance was absent.
This is an unchosen opening or condition in the record, not an estimate of how much luck caused the outcome.
Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Frontier geography, Exceptional peer / cofounder.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Strongest observed levers: Complementary team, Capital safety, Domain proximity.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
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.
Notable and widely recognized within the domain. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Mohammed Roshan's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
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.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
No current annotation distinguishes self-built, enabled, or earned origins for this lever.
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Mohammed Roshan's outcome attributable to any origin.
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.
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Not documented.
Not documented.
Early Bitcoin adopter since 2014; based in Bengaluru; sibling co-founder Roshni Aslam; Stanford GSB alumnus
advantage confidence: Low · source count: 5 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: founder_research_beta