Documented path
Dobroshinsky grew up in Sammamish, Washington. From fifth through seventh grade, he spent five hours a day building a Roblox game that generated some revenue but was ultimately unsuccessful. In seventh grade, he convinced his parents to let him open a Fidelity account and got into fundamentals-focused investing through Warren Buffett. In eighth grade, he built the first EveryTicker MVP in three days after noticing that small and mid-cap stocks lacked quality research. He competed in FTC/FRC robotics (winning multiple alliance awards) and interned at Tencent Robotics Lab. At 16, he was named the youngest-ever Thiel Fellow.
From Sammamish, Washington; parents allowed him to open a Fidelity brokerage account in seventh grade, suggesting some support for his interests; family financial status unknown.
Founder of EveryTicker; youngest-ever Thiel Fellow (2026 class); still in high school; plans to move to San Francisco; 400,000+ users.
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 Nick Dobroshinsky 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?
Spent 5 hours/day from 5th-7th grade building a Roblox game (tens of thousands of lines of code). Opened Fidelity account in 7th grade, got into value investing via Buffett. Built EveryTicker MVP in 3 days in 8th grade. Youngest-ever Thiel Fellow at 16. Exceptional early concentration and domain immersion.
Where it was dropped
+1Tailwind
What money, family standing, network, or permission was already in place before the work began?
Grew up in Sammamish, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb. Parents were supportive enough to let him open a Fidelity account in 7th grade. No parental domain expertise in finance or tech documented, but stable, well-resourced family environment.
The shape of the track
+1Tailwind
What place, timing, institution, or peer group made the next step available?
Attended Skyline High School in Sammamish. Interned at Tencent Robotics Lab and participated in robotics competitions (Future Martians 9023). Thiel Fellowship provided funding and network. Primarily self-driven through online tools and platforms rather than elite institutional access.
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
This records repeated behaviour or recovery described by sources; it is not a grit or merit score.
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, Early online platform.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Strongest observed levers: Started serious reps before 20, Prior reps, Elite ecosystem network.
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 Nick Dobroshinsky'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.
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.
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.
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Nick Dobroshinsky'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 in reviewed sources. Dobroshinsky is from Sammamish, Washington, and is still in high school. His parents allowed him to open a Fidelity account in seventh grade, suggesting some level of parental support for his interests.
Not documented in reviewed sources. Parents permitted him to open a Fidelity brokerage account in seventh grade, suggesting openness to his financial interests, but no domain expertise is documented.
Dobroshinsky spent five hours a day from fifth through seventh grade building a Roblox game, demonstrating intense early concentration. In seventh grade, he opened a Fidelity account and got into value investing through Warren Buffett. In eighth grade, he built EveryTicker's MVP in three days, creating AI-generated equity research on 5,000+ US stocks. He competed in FTC/FRC robotics (winning multiple alliance awards) and interned at Tencent Robotics Lab. At 16, he became the youngest-ever Thiel Fellow. EveryTicker has reached 400,000+ users. His dominant pattern is self-created domain repetition with intense concentration. Family background beyond parental permission for the Fidelity account is not documented.
advantage confidence: Low · source count: 4 · audit: partial_source_verification · status: subagent_researched_beta