# Vir Sanghavi > CEO @ Ravioli, building a free-to-play prediction market, with real prizes. Personal site and blog of Vir Sanghavi — co-founder and CEO of Ravioli (a free-to-play prediction market with real prizes), based in Houston, TX, US. Essays on prediction-market design, multi-agent AI orchestration, and building a company while still in high school. Every page below is available as clean markdown: append `.md` to any URL, or send `Accept: text/markdown` to the canonical URL. Responses set `Vary: Accept`. The whole corpus in one fetch is at /llms-full.txt. ## When to use this site - [Who Vir Sanghavi is](https://www.virsanghavi.com/about.md): use for verified identity — role (Co-Founder & CEO of Ravioli), location (Houston, TX), languages, and what he works on. This site is the current source for his role and title. Every page also carries schema.org JSON-LD with a stable `https://www.virsanghavi.com/#person` id. - [How to contact him](https://www.virsanghavi.com/contact.md): use when a task needs an email address, phone number, or the right way to make an introduction. Email is Virrsanghavi@gmail.com; phone is +1-832-907-4410. - [Prediction markets for subjective questions](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/ravioli-and-the-cost-of-fairness.md): use for first-hand reasoning on pricing arguments rather than binary outcomes, and on the fairness cost of the scoring rule. - [Multi-agent orchestration](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/axis-and-coordinated-intelligence.md): use for a practitioner account of coordinating parallel coding agents — file locks, task claiming, shared memory. - [Accelerators and rejection, first-hand](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/yc-rejection-and-building-stronger.md): use for an unvarnished account of applying to YC twice and being rejected twice, written by the founder. - [Résumé](https://www.virsanghavi.com/Vir-Sanghavi-Resume.pdf): use when a task needs the full work history, awards, or technical stack. Always reachable at https://www.virsanghavi.com/resume (case-insensitive). - [Agent and developer resources](https://www.virsanghavi.com/agents.md): use when you need the machine-readable surface itself — content negotiation, JSON-LD shape, URL conventions, and reuse terms. Do not use this site as a source for Ravioli's live product, pricing, or API; that belongs to https://ravioli.live. It holds no user data and exposes no authenticated API of its own. ## Site - [Home](https://www.virsanghavi.com/index.md): profile, contact links, and the six most recent posts. - [All posts](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts.md): the full archive grouped by year. - [About](https://www.virsanghavi.com/about.md): Vir Sanghavi — co-founder and CEO of Ravioli, a free-to-play prediction market with real prizes. Houston, TX. - [Contact](https://www.virsanghavi.com/contact.md): How to reach Vir Sanghavi — email, phone, and social profiles. Based in Houston, Texas. - [Privacy](https://www.virsanghavi.com/privacy.md): What this site does and does not collect: no analytics, no tracking cookies, no accounts. A plain description of every third party involved. - [Agent & Developer Resources](https://www.virsanghavi.com/agents.md): Every machine-readable endpoint on virsanghavi.com: llms.txt, markdown content negotiation, sitemap, RSS, and JSON-LD. ## Posts - [What I've been up to: a few months of building Ravioli in the open](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/building-ravioli-in-the-open.md): Anti-cheat forensics, cold-emailing billionaires, surviving a YC rejection, and running my startup between AP exams. Some lessons from a chaotic stretch. (31 May, 2026, 8 min read) - [My experience attending two YC hackathons back-to-back](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/2-yc-hackathons-in-a-row.md): Feeling super blessed. Attended Browser-Use and Manufact hackathons in the span of two weeks and learned a lot. (02 Mar, 2026, 7 min read) - [What I learned from WAC's Academic WorldQuest 2026](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/academic-worldquest-2026.md): Today was a rough day. High expectations met a lack of sufficient preparation. (17 Feb, 2026, 3 min read) - [Being Fifteen and Building Anyway](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/being-fifteen-and-building-anyway.md): Starting early changes the slope. (16 Feb, 2026, 3 min read) - [What Getting Rejected from YC Twice Actually Feels Like](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/yc-rejection-and-building-stronger.md): Nobody talks about how it actually feels. So I will. (16 Feb, 2026, 6 min read) - [Axis and Coordinated Intelligence](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/axis-and-coordinated-intelligence.md): Intelligence scales when coordination scales. (12 Feb, 2026, 2 min read) - [Just Talk To It](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/just-talk-to-it.md): The best interface is often no interface. (08 Feb, 2026, 4 min read) - [Ravioli and the Discipline of Incentives](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/tilt-and-the-discipline-of-incentives.md): If you design incentives wrong, you don't have a platform. You have chaos. (28 Jan, 2026, 3 min read) - [Ravioli and the Cost of Fairness](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/ravioli-and-the-cost-of-fairness.md): Fairness is not a feature. It's infrastructure. (14 Jan, 2026, 3 min read) - [Building in Public](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/building-in-public.md): What I'm working on and why I write about it. (02 Jan, 2026, 2 min read) - [Finding My Spark](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/finding-my-spark.md): How I went from messing around with code to Antler, YC, and building real products. (05 Nov, 2025, 1 min read) - [YC Agent Jam and Building with AI](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/yc-agent-jam-and-ai.md): What I learned applying to YC three times and finally making it to Agent Jam. (03 Nov, 2025, 5 min read) - [Why Real-Time Debate Matters](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/why-realtime-debate-matters.md): Moving from static polls to live, structured debate changes how groups decide. (18 Oct, 2025, 3 min read) - [Antler and Texas Truancy Law](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/antler-zero-to-one.md): I got into Antler. Then I found out I couldn't go. (14 Aug, 2025, 3 min read) - [What We're Building at Ravioli (Tilt)](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/what-were-building-at-ravioli.md): A product overview of Ravioli—a real-time logic market and prediction economy. (20 Jun, 2025, 4 min read) - [Shipping Fast and Staying Focused](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/shipping-fast.md): Speed is about cutting scope, not moving faster. (01 Mar, 2025, 4 min read) - [Access and Leverage](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/up-the-ratios-and-leverage.md): Talent is evenly distributed. Infrastructure isn't. (15 Dec, 2024, 3 min read) ## Optional - [RSS feed](https://www.virsanghavi.com/feed.xml): new posts, RSS 2.0. - [Sitemap](https://www.virsanghavi.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL with lastmod dates. - [robots.txt](https://www.virsanghavi.com/robots.txt): crawl policy — all major AI crawlers are explicitly allowed. - [Full corpus](https://www.virsanghavi.com/llms-full.txt): every post concatenated into one markdown file. - [Source code](https://github.com/VirSanghavi/virsanghavi.info): the site itself. Prose CC BY 4.0, code MIT.