I’m a serial entrepreneur passionate about building companies that solve real problems and challenge conventional thinking. Over the past decade, I’ve founded and scaled multiple ventures including taking a company from bootstrapped beginnings to the Inc. 5000 list and advised startups across SaaS, fintech, and consumer tech.

Today, I’m leading CompetitorIQ, a competitive intelligence platform that helps strategy and corp dev leaders see beyond press releases and polished announcements. By surfacing the hidden signals competitors leave behind from hiring trends and API changes to product documentation updates, we help teams anticipate moves months before they hit the news.

Alongside building companies, I’ve invested in underrepresented founders through funds like W Fund and Hustle Fund’s Angel Squad, and served on boards supporting inclusive entrepreneurship. I also authored “Decoding the Why,” an Amazon best-seller on behavioral science in product design and growth.

At the core, I thrive on uncovering hidden patterns, scaling ideas into impact, and collaborating with people who share a vision for shaping the future of technology.

Nate Andorsky

Announcement for anyone who wants to cold pitch me via LinkedIn DM:

Just pitch me.

Stop trying to pretend you personalized a message, we all know its AI.

You didnt look at my profile, you don't love my last post, it's all lies.

It comes off as disingenuous.

And is a immediate "no" even if I am interested in what you have to sell.

Founder & CEO at CompetitorIQ | Serial Entrepreneur & Author | Inc. 5000 Company Builder | Angel Investor & Board Member

Just received a Linkedin request from someone saying, "noticed we both share a  passion for growth and impact..."

That's like saying... "noticed we both appreciate breathing air..."

Anyone else keep getting added to events they never signed up for by Brian Kelly?

This is just the worst... cold adding people to webinars they never signed up for.

I've spent 12 months building a competitive intelligence solution.

Here's what I learned about why this problem looks simple on the surface but is incredibly complex underneath:

1. Change detection is brutally difficult.

A scraper hits an error and returns no content—your tool flags that the competitor removed a feature. But they didn't. 

The page just timed out.

A homepage updates its copy—is this a strategic pivot or just a refresh?
Testimonials rotate on every page load—your diff script screams "change detected" constantly.

Most tools treat any change as meaningful. 

The signal-to-noise ratio becomes unusable.

2. You wants to provide insights first, then sources—but it's a chicken-and-egg problem.

The right approach is surfacing "Company X launched Feature Y" with all supporting evidence underneath. Not "Company X just published a news article about Y."

But to identify that insight, you first need to collect and analyze all the raw sources—news articles, tweets, changelog entries, job posts. 

Then you have to work backwards, connecting those scattered sources to the insight they collectively reveal.

Most tools skip this step entirely. 

They dump raw data and expect you to find the patterns yourself.

3. Individual changes mean nothing in isolation.

Three pricing page updates, two executive hires, and a product positioning shift might signal a major strategic move—or might be completely unrelated.

The tools that actually work don't just detect changes. 

They understand context, filter noise, and surface what actually matters.

Tie all these 3 together is what makes a first class competitive intel experience.

Yasin Ehsan

Andreessen Horowitz

Writing angel checks through a16z’s scout fund

Angel Investor

Headstarter

Mobilize AI Engineers to create the greatest products of our 21st century.

CEO & Co-Founder

Capital One

• Filed 2 patents & built 3 micro services which grabs costs of 10K+ Git repos, visualizes data and notifies implementers via Slack of overspent repos, thus assessing growing AWS expenditures (currently $300M+)
• Owned patent process on cost-tracking platform after winning 1st place in division-wide hackathon with 2,715 associates 
• Directed AWS savings on how teams should budget which got featured in CEO’s product strategy call of 26k+ associates
• Spearheaded initiative to reduce AI/ML cloud costs for Capital One’s flagship chatbot (Eno), which gets 1Bn+ monthly interactions, by leading the full product development lifecycle, thus decreasing AWS costs by ~50% ($400K+ savings YTD)
• Led market research by conducting 15+ business analysis interviews with cross-functional team leadership, thus identifying key issue: onus of AWS budget falls on leadership (VPs/Directors) not feature implementers (engineers/leads)
• Created narrative for product management directors to adopt cost platform during growth of team from 2 to 7 engineers
• Pitched $250M+ call center opportunity to VP after initiating ENOHACKs, selecting theme of creating AI persona chatbots

Senior Software Engineer

Major League Hacking

• Estee Lauder HQ---Overall 1st, $7,500 cash prize, 270+ participants, 2019 
• Hack NYU---Overall 1st, Best Design by Facebook, Best Start-up Idea, 310+ participants, 2020
• Capital One: Overall 1st among top-10 teams from division of 2500+ people
• Hack Cornell---Overall 1st, 320+ participants, 2019 
• IBM Call for Code---Overall 1st, Dine with Bill Clinton as prize, 90+ participants, 2019 
• OpenHacks: Best Presentation, 700+ participants, 2020
•  Berkeley AI Hacks: Top 15 from 290+ teams (1300 people). Demo'd to Sequoia and Reach capital
• Hack Cooper---Overall 2nd, 150+ participants, 2019
• Capital One Intern Hack---top-10 among 550+ swe interns many from top colleges, 2019
• CodePath demo day---Overall 2nd, 40+ teams, 2019
• Hack Cooper---Best use of Google Cloud APIs, tour of Google NYC office, 2018
• JP Morgan Code for Good---Overall 1st, got JP Morgan internship offer, 2018 
• Dev Week NYC Conference---Best real-time Communication API, 2018

13x Hackathon Winner

Software Engineering Fellow

Chrono Group

• Ideated and owned 4+ applications with payment walls for local businesses bringing SEO ranking to top-3 Google Search
• Led team of 4 developers to design software patterns and develop company blog chronogrp.com using React, Node, AWS

CTO and Co-Founder

CUNY Tech Prep

• Selected for a full-stack JavaScript program as one of 100 fellows out of 400+ applicants
 • Learn MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, NodeJS + best practices from design to deployment
• Leveraged knowledge: Git workflows, testing, CI/CD, agile development, MVC pattern, APIs/Microservices

Software Engineering Fellow, Web Bootcamp

Impact Labs

• Selective(<5%) fellowship equipping and inspiring next generation of social entrepreneurs
• Created social-impact apps in React, Node, Express, MongoDB, PyTorch, Solidity
• Connected with speakers and leaders from NGOs, social startups and venture capitalists

Product Innovation Fellow

In 2019, I had started my first official tech internship. Prior to starting I had made a strong preference to be matched with iOS as I had just come out of 24-week, iOS bootcamp by CodePath. I wanted to use this as a chance to hone in on what I learned and see how industry tackles mobile dev. I requested that if I cannot be put in a mobile team, my next preference would be r&d. 

I got to be one of two interns out of 50+ interns in TX to work with the iOS team which also happened to be a former r&d team. Choosing work you want is often luck but I "shooted" my shot and was pleased with what I got. 

• Built 5+ iOS features resulting in $1 million+ in auto-financing within 8 weeks of app launch
• Developed GPS map geo-fences on bookmarked cars triggering notifications when breached
• Created algorithm in Swift optimizing user movement around Apple’s location limitations
• Top-10 teams from 550+ Software Engineering Interns in internal hackathon across 7 offices

Software Engineering Intern, iOS, Research and Development Team

Google

In 2019, I attended Hack RPI whose lead organizer spearheaded Google Cloud workshops. I was really impressed by his wide grasp of cloud services and wanted to see that in myself. He turned out to be a Google Student Innovator: a program where he was trained in GCP and given the right to distribute cloud credits and Google Merch as one of two on-campus representatives. 

First thing I did when I got back that weekend, was reach out to him and other program leads and do all things needed to become a Google Student Innovator. Which I did. I had already worked on a ton of Firebase projects but this now gave me exposure to the 101 cloud services such as compute. 

I distributed $15k+ computing credits to 300+ students/professionals and hosted Google Cloud Platform workshops at Queens College as part of 200 ambassadors nationwide. I represented with Google at hackathons and mentored competitors on best practices in MVP of web/mobile apps and introduced open-source software and agile development to 100+ students new to programming.

Google Cloud Student Ambassador

10x Hackathon Winner | 8x Bootcamp Alum | 2x AWS Patent Owner | Ex-Capital One Chatbot | TEDx Director | Serving CS Undergrads

Headstarter's Accelerator is for engineers of all levels to build, collaborate and get recognition. With over 115k engineers in our community and 40+ company and VC partners, Headstarter's mission is to mobilize AI Engineers to create the greatest products of our 21st century. Over 2000 engineers from Headstarter got offers at OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc. 

If you want to hire from headstarter, go here: crackedhires.ai

Reasons to Familiarize with AI Engineering in 2025:
1) Cursor wants to make a 50x engineer
2) Most of AI's value will come from vertical apps
3) Every engineer needs forward deployed engineer / founder skills

Apply for Accelerator: headstarter.co

CEO and Co-Founder

We are building the world's first AI professor, Anthony. Anthony will launch students through 5 stages: rook, intern, pro, elite and prime. Our values - intentional, talented and accomplished.

We spent $25k on the Great Lock In Weekend. 

Here is what came from it: 
- 3 teams interviewed with YC 
- 1st place Anna won after $50k arr
- my first A16z SR investment into Sean

Over 3000 people applied from 40+ countries. 

We accepted a couple hundred to make the most revenue in 7 days. 

We invited a few dozen for an in person summit to demo live. 

The summit was a success. We paid about $10k in flight reimbursements to folks. 

The room was filled with energy. My roommates also came. 

Powell house has 8 roommates who got into yc and 5 backed by a16z. 

The goal for GLW was to inspire more folks to take the leap to building something same way my roommates who came to sf for a tech internship and left w a yc term sheet.

Headstarter’s mission is to mobilize engineers to create the greatest products of our 21st century.

This was a small drop in the ocean to whats possible. 

Thanks to our sponsors, speakers and partners who made this possible. 

And all the people behind the scenes: 

- my cofounder Faizan
- our media team Muhammad
- ushers and logistics Majd, Tawsif

And everyone from the Werqwise event space who made this possible in quick turn around. 

More things to come, just the beginning.

Yasin Ehsan 🚀

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