Vedant Khanna
I'm Cognition's first deployed engineer in India, working to transform companies with hundreds of thousands of employeees.
I was previously CEO and cofounder of Hazel (PearX W23), where we raised $2M to build an AI real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway. I studied Math at Stanford, and enjoy angel investing in friends (Mercor, Sable).
I helped build Friends and Family, a community at Stanford that ships. One of my favorite projects was Siri for email.
Highlighted writings
What is worth working on?
2026-04-19A question I've been grappling with for a while, here are my thoughts.
On the meritocracy of nepotism
2026-01-03Combining patronage with meritocracy can work better.
Boredom
2025-09-29Boredom gets you places you wouldn't have thought of consciously.