Stanford, CA
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Telling stories for everyday people.
Telling stories for everyday people.
Telling stories for everyday people.
Atman Jahagirdar
Designer and Comedy Actor | Senior @ Stanford
Designer and Comedy Actor Senior @ Stanford
About
I work to understand people and systems, then use tech and comedy to make uncomfortable truths visible.
DESIGN EXPERIENCE
COMEDY EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder
admityogi.com
AdmitYogi
·
2022-Acquisition
Acquired by Crimson Education ($590M consultancy) in 2023.
We pay college students to send us their college apps, then college applicants pay us to read them.
Chief Marketing Officer
ADMITYOGI
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2022-2023
I built a trustworthy brand, taking us from 0 to 100K+ followers and 50M+ likes across platforms. I learned to listen and care for my audiences. People can smell a product plug from a swipe away!
Ran growth experiments across ads, email, and product flows, iterating quickly using Figma and PostHog, scaling to over 250K+ users.
Interviewed college students daily to understand the trust required for them to share deeply personal application materials. I interview users to shatter my own conclusions, not to confirm what I think I know.
Co-Founder
admityogi.com
AdmitYogi
·
2022-Acquisition
Acquired by Crimson Education ($590M consultancy) in 2023.
We pay college students to send us their college apps, then college applicants pay us to read them.
Chief Marketing Officer
ADMITYOGI
·
2022-2023
I built a trustworthy brand, taking us from 0 to 100K+ followers and 50M+ likes across platforms. I learned to listen and care for my audiences. People can smell a product plug from a swipe away!
Ran growth experiments across ads, email, and product flows, iterating quickly using Figma and PostHog, scaling to over 250K+ users.
Interviewed college students daily to understand the trust required for them to share deeply personal application materials. I interview users to shatter my own conclusions, not to confirm what I think I know.
Co-Founder
admityogi.com
AdmitYogi
·
2022-Acquisition
Acquired by Crimson Education ($590M consultancy) in 2023.
We pay college students to send us their college apps, then college applicants pay us to read them.
Chief Marketing Officer
ADMITYOGI
·
2022-2023
I built a trustworthy brand, taking us from 0 to 100K+ followers and 50M+ likes across platforms. I learned to listen and care for my audiences. People can smell a product plug from a swipe away!
Ran growth experiments across ads, email, and product flows, iterating quickly using Figma and PostHog, scaling to over 250K+ users.
Interviewed college students daily to understand the trust required for them to share deeply personal application materials. I interview users to shatter my own conclusions, not to confirm what I think I know.
Co-Founder & Co-President
BULLYPULPIT.CO
Bully Pulpit
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2025-PRESENT
Stanford has had enough fireside chats. At Bully Pulpit, you can show up in jeans and debate a billionaire over barbecue.
Our first event "Should Billionaires Exist?" featured former billionaire Brian O'Kelley, former Trump Economic Advisor Josh Rauh, Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner, and Center on Poverty and Inequality Founder David Grusky.
Recipient of the ePluribus grant for free speech and critical inquiry.
Head of Design
BULLY PULPIT
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2025-PRESENT
Own the full experience and visual identity of Bully Pulpit, from brand and website to physical space, programs, and videography
Design culturally provocative campaigns that translate abstract debates into compelling exhibitions
Create immersive, artistic event environments that consistently draw 300+ attendees from diverse academic backgrounds
Approach design as anthropology, shaping conversations before the debate
Co-Founder & Co-President
BULLYPULPIT.CO
Bully Pulpit
·
2025-PRESENT
Stanford has had enough fireside chats. At Bully Pulpit, you can show up in jeans and debate a billionaire over barbecue.
Our first event "Should Billionaires Exist?" featured former billionaire Brian O'Kelley, former Trump Economic Advisor Josh Rauh, Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner, and Center on Poverty and Inequality Founder David Grusky.
Recipient of the ePluribus grant for free speech and critical inquiry.
Head of Design
BULLY PULPIT
·
2025-PRESENT
Own the full experience and visual identity of Bully Pulpit, from brand and website to physical space, programs, and videography
Design culturally provocative campaigns that translate abstract debates into compelling exhibitions
Create immersive, artistic event environments that consistently draw 300+ attendees from diverse academic backgrounds
Approach design as anthropology, shaping conversations before the debate
Co-Founder & Co-President
BULLYPULPIT.CO
Bully Pulpit
·
2025-PRESENT
Stanford has had enough fireside chats. At Bully Pulpit, you can show up in jeans and debate a billionaire over barbecue.
Our first event "Should Billionaires Exist?" featured former billionaire Brian O'Kelley, former Trump Economic Advisor Josh Rauh, Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner, and Center on Poverty and Inequality Founder David Grusky.
Recipient of the ePluribus grant for free speech and critical inquiry.
Head of Design
BULLY PULPIT
·
2025-PRESENT
Own the full experience and visual identity of Bully Pulpit, from brand and website to physical space, programs, and videography
Design culturally provocative campaigns that translate abstract debates into compelling exhibitions
Create immersive, artistic event environments that consistently draw 300+ attendees from diverse academic backgrounds
Approach design as anthropology, shaping conversations before the debate
Co-Creator
OUR FAVORITE STUDY
MR. CHURN
·
2025-PRESENT
I'm vibecoding an extension that graffitis ads in real-time, exposing the persuasive tactic each one uses. It's based on a psychological intervention in which children graffitiing junk food ads led to healthier eating habits.
Below are some examples and the exact continuum of humor vs. objectivity we're experimenting with.
Co-Creator
OUR FAVORITE STUDY
MR. CHURN
·
2025-PRESENT
I'm vibecoding an extension that graffitis ads in real-time, exposing the persuasive tactic each one uses. It's based on a psychological intervention in which children graffitiing junk food ads led to healthier eating habits.
Below are some examples and the exact continuum of humor vs. objectivity we're experimenting with.
Co-Creator
OUR FAVORITE STUDY
MR. CHURN
·
2025-PRESENT
I'm vibecoding an extension that graffitis ads in real-time, exposing the persuasive tactic each one uses. It's based on a psychological intervention in which children graffitiing junk food ads led to healthier eating habits.
Below are some examples and the exact continuum of humor vs. objectivity we're experimenting with.
Intervention Designer, Documentarian
DOCUMENTARY
The Caltrain Connection Booth
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2024
Tasked to design for Caltrain in 6 weeks, we focused on the needs of elderly riders, for whom the Caltrain can feel isolating and socially demotivating. Backed by psychological literature about social belonging interventions, we tested countless prototypes, landing on the hyper-simple Connection Booth. The documentary is the evidence!
Intervention Designer, Documentarian
DOCUMENTARY
The Caltrain Connection Booth
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2024
Tasked to design for Caltrain in 6 weeks, we focused on the needs of elderly riders, for whom the Caltrain can feel isolating and socially demotivating. Backed by psychological literature about social belonging interventions, we tested countless prototypes, landing on the hyper-simple Connection Booth. The documentary is the evidence!
Intervention Designer, Documentarian
DOCUMENTARY
The Caltrain Connection Booth
·
2024
Tasked to design for Caltrain in 6 weeks, we focused on the needs of elderly riders, for whom the Caltrain can feel isolating and socially demotivating. Backed by psychological literature about social belonging interventions, we tested countless prototypes, landing on the hyper-simple Connection Booth. The documentary is the evidence!
Creator
GIVE INPUT
CorpKiller3000
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2024-PRESENT
I vibecoded CorpKiller3000 in the Sequoia Design Fellowship. Very simply, the tool swaps fees with the real checkout price, fees and all.
This is especially important today. Currently, online stores implement hidden fees only 11% of the time. Meanwhile, AI-generated storefronts implement them 100% of the time. Soon, honest sellers will be pushed out.
The prototype works on DoorDash and I'm making it work everywhere.
Creator
GIVE INPUT
CorpKiller3000
·
2024-PRESENT
I vibecoded CorpKiller3000 in the Sequoia Design Fellowship. Very simply, the tool swaps fees with the real checkout price, fees and all.
This is especially important today. Currently, online stores implement hidden fees only 11% of the time. Meanwhile, AI-generated storefronts implement them 100% of the time. Soon, honest sellers will be pushed out.
The prototype works on DoorDash and I'm making it work everywhere.
Creator
GIVE INPUT
CorpKiller3000
·
2024-PRESENT
I vibecoded CorpKiller3000 in the Sequoia Design Fellowship. Very simply, the tool swaps fees with the real checkout price, fees and all.
This is especially important today. Currently, online stores implement hidden fees only 11% of the time. Meanwhile, AI-generated storefronts implement them 100% of the time. Soon, honest sellers will be pushed out.
The prototype works on DoorDash and I'm making it work everywhere.
Creator
GIVE INPUT
CorpKiller4000
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2024-PRESENT
I'm in the early stages of designing CorpKiller4000, which exposes all the dark patterns on a website (buying pressure, fake sales, pre-checked boxes, and more). It names the manipulation, countries with bans on it, and an estimate of the annual cost to users. My favorite: it reports illegal violations to the FTC, who currently lack enough quality reports to clamp down.
My next iteration is all about cutting down the overstimulation without losing the science.
Creator
GIVE INPUT
CorpKiller4000
·
2024-PRESENT
I'm in the early stages of designing CorpKiller4000, which exposes all the dark patterns on a website (buying pressure, fake sales, pre-checked boxes, and more). It names the manipulation, countries with bans on it, and an estimate of the annual cost to users. My favorite: it reports illegal violations to the FTC, who currently lack enough quality reports to clamp down.
My next iteration is all about cutting down the overstimulation without losing the science.
Creator
GIVE INPUT
CorpKiller4000
·
2024-PRESENT
I'm in the early stages of designing CorpKiller4000, which exposes all the dark patterns on a website (buying pressure, fake sales, pre-checked boxes, and more). It names the manipulation, countries with bans on it, and an estimate of the annual cost to users. My favorite: it reports illegal violations to the FTC, who currently lack enough quality reports to clamp down.
My next iteration is all about cutting down the overstimulation without losing the science.
Honors
ePluribus Grant Recipient
BULLY PULPIT
·
2026
Stanford's prize for projects concerning free speech and critical inquiry
Sequoia Design Fellow
SEQUOIA VC
·
2025
Worked under Partners like James Buckhouse, incubating tools like CorpKiller3000.
Stanford BASES $100K Challenge Undergraduate Winner
ADMITYOGI
·
2023
Stanford's largest pitch competition
Princeton TigerLaunch Runner-Up
ADMITYOGI
·
2023
Largest student-run pitch competition in the world
Languages
English
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Marathi
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