About Yash Godiwala
Current interests/hobbies: all things outdoors, cooking, short films, poetry, American politics, socioeconomics, cricket
Recent enjoyable reads: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed; The Covenant of Water
Current reads: The Art of Loving
Hey - I'm Yash Godiwala.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area to first-generation immigrants — my mom, a dentist who started her own practice less than 10 years after moving to the country, and my dad, the first in his family to move to the States and become a tech exec during the rise of Silicon Valley.
Despite struggling through classes at school, I fell in love with the relationships that could be made through the internet. In middle school, I taught myself Photoshop and freelanced for eSports organizations looking for a brand identity. In high school, friends and I worked on clothing brands. And as I prepared to receive my diploma, I shot a cold email to some Berkeley students working on an alternative asset investment platform, convincing them to let me lead marketing efforts.
Three months into college in upstate New York, I dropped out, eager to join the booming startup scene in San Francisco, eventually finding my way to where I am now.
Outside of work, I spend time running, playing cricket, bouldering, enjoying new coffee shops, learning how to use my Fujifilm XS-20, and writing about my reflections on my experiences and observations (and publishing them, on occasion).
These days, I’m spending my time thinking about the attention economy, the unfortunate death of American community and how AI intersects with both of these.