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Rohan Puri
Milestone (age 18)
Co-founded Stable Auto in 2017 at approximately age 18, an EV charging data analytics platform that raised $14 million in total funding from MIT E14, Ubiquity Ventures, and Trucks Venture Capital.
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.
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Am I the next Rohan Puri? →Starting point
Family background and early life not documented in reviewed sources; was a research specialist at MIT Media Lab before founding Stable Auto.
Current position (2025)
Co-founder and CEO of Stable Auto; company has raised $14M total funding; based in San Francisco Bay Area.
How this path compounded
01 Starting advantages
8/24 starting-position score
Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Exceptional peer / cofounder, Frontier geography.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Cohort percentile: 72
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 18
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 Rohan Puri's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Rohan Puri'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.
Rare early tools (1/2)Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)
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)
Domain proximity2/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Direct domain exposure (1/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)
Prior reps2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Rare early tools (1/2)Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)
Scarce skill depth2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Rare early tools (1/2)Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)
Elite ecosystem network2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Exceptional peer / cofounder (2/2)
Structural wave / timing2/3
Externalmedium confidence
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
Frontier geography (1/2)
Concentration intensity2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Rohan Puri'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, Rohan Puri's starting-advantage total is at the 72th 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
- 2017 · age 18
Co-founded Stable Auto with Jamie Schiel after working together
MIT Media Lab on sensing and machine learning projects.
- 2019 · age 20
Stable Auto raised initial funding from MIT E14
Ubiquity Ventures, and Trucks Venture Capital.
- 2022 · age 23
Company expanded to work with major utilities
Charging operators across the US.
- 2024 · age 25
Stable Auto raised total of $14M
Spoke at EV Charging Infrastructure Summit and RE+ 2024.
- 2025 · age 26
Continued leading Stable Auto as CEO
Company serving charge point operators including bp pulse, Blink, SWTCH, and EV Connect.
Primary leverage engine
Technical depth
Scarce technical / intellectual depth
Secondary engine
Product / domain insight
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
2/3
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
1/2
Exceptional peer / cofounder
2/2
Direct domain exposure
1/2
Prodigy / innate ability
0/2
Adversity / constraint catalyst
0/2
Family context
Not documented in reviewed sources. No information on parents, family background, or early life circumstances.
Parent / family domain
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Archetype & tags
Institutional ecosystem accelerationmit-media-labco-founder-partnershipev-charging-waveml-expertisegoogle-collaborationtechnical-depth
Evidence summary
Rohan Puri leveraged his position as a research specialist at MIT Media Lab to co-found Stable Auto at approximately age 18, building an EV charging analytics platform that raised $14M. At MIT, he co-invented biometric sensing technology with Google and co-instructed a graduate-level course, demonstrating exceptional technical depth for his age. His co-founder Jamie Schiel was also from MIT Media Lab, providing a strong complementary partnership. The EV charging structural wave and MIT's entrepreneurial ecosystem (E14 fund) accelerated the company. No family background, parental domain expertise, or financial platform is documented in reviewed sources. His early advantages stem primarily from the MIT institutional ecosystem and his technical depth in machine learning.
advantage confidence: Low · source count: 4 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: subagent_researched_beta
Sources
Related — same primary engine