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title: "Yashovardhan Karnawat - Building Cospire in Jaipur | Tal"
description: "Meet Yashovardhan Karnawat, Building Cospire | Masters Union ‘27 | I help people get into new-age colleges | Making videos at the intersection of Content & Education based in Jaipur."
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# Yashovardhan Karnawat on Tal

## Headline

Building Cospire \| Masters Union ‘27 \| I help people get into new\-age colleges \| Making videos at the intersection of Content & Education

## About

I like figuring things out by doing them\. Sometimes that has meant running a half\-marathon\. Sometimes it meant cold\-emailing strangers I admired just to ask them better questions\. Most recently, it has meant launching Cospire, an experiment that grew out of conversations, a camera, and a lot of trial and error\. At Cospire, we help students navigate new\-age college admissions and make honest, useful videos at the intersection of education and content\. We began with a market so small it almost didn’t exist: people who wanted to get into Masters’ Union\. Our thinking was simple \- if we could become the best in the world for 100 people, that would be enough to start\. That approach has stuck with me: \- Do things that don’t scale\. \(Initially\) \- The cost of entry is embarrassment\. \- Depth matters more than reach\. Before Cospire, I tried a bit of everything: founder’s office internships, marketing roles, a podcast\. And school for me was more about sports, debates, and experiments than textbooks\. In my gap year, I kept experimenting: Vipassana, distance running, preparing for IIM \(got in, didn’t go\), and then finally choosing Masters’ Union\. Those choices shaped how I see education \- not as something fixed, but as something I could design for myself\. I care about how people learn, how they make decisions, and how to create organizations that add more value to the world than they take away\. At the center of it all is one habit: trying to ask better, more meaningful questions\.

## Location

Jaipur

## Work experience

Building Cospire at Cospire, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, Cospire started as an experiment in rethinking how students discover and access opportunities\. The spark came during a content challenge at Masters’ Union, and since then it’s grown into a distribution\-first venture that helps students build strong profiles and navigate new\-age college admissions \- across places like Masters’ Union, Ashoka and MESA\. We started small, focusing on getting the first 100 users that love us, rather than the first million that kinda liked us \(a lesson borrowed from Sam Altman, and one that’s carried us since\)\. Our idea was simple: if we could be the best option for even a tiny group of students, that would be enough to start\. Our early days were scrappy: bad cold messages, awkward first videos, doing “random” things just to start\. The cost of entry was embarrassment\. But it worked\. We focused on quality over scale, obsessed over making each client ridiculously happy, and revenue came quickly enough to sustain us\. Highlights so far: \- 2000\+ members in our WA communities \- A team of 12 people \- Worked with 200\+ students over the last 1\.5 years \- Multiple six\-figure monthly revenue Now, we’re figuring out how to grow without losing the soul that made Cospire what it is\.

Vice President Admission Fellows at Masters' Union, Aug 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr, Delhi, India, Got my first behind\-the\-scenes look at how admissions actually work\. Led a team of 40–45 fellows who hosted hundreds of outreach events every month\. This experience gave me both credibility and perspective \- an “unfair advantage” \- for when I started Cospire\.

Founder's Office\- Marketing at YourNextHire\.ai, Jun 2024 \- Aug 2024 · 3 mos, Bangalore, This was a dream internship for the learning it gave me\. Rohan, the founder, taught me what working hard actually means \- and that 75% of any role, no matter your title, will be boring\. You do it anyway\. I earned 40k in 40 days as a first\-year student, which did wonders for my self\-esteem\. I don’t think I was their best hire back then, but Rohan’s character and leadership still shapes how I think about work today\.

Marketing Intern at Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt\. Ltd\., May 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 2 mos, Delhi, India, The “big first\-year summer internship\.” I left after 20 days \- my first real lesson that growth doesn’t come from a line on your CV, but from the experiences you choose to prioritise

Podcast Host at the\_yashow, Dec 2023 \- May 2024 · 6 mos, India, This was my moonshot: could I get a few minutes with incredibly successful people, ask better questions, and make videos from those conversations? And that small experiment opened doors to conversations with Avanti Nagral, Ishan Sharma, CA Sarthak Ahuja, and more\. It was my first real\-world project outside the classroom, and it gave me the confidence that I could create something from scratch\. Along the way, I learned the power of cold emailing, and became a sharper thinker and a better conversationalist\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Buisness and Technology, Masters' Union

Life, Gap Year

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