The origin story reads like a simulation glitch. Homeschooled kid in a South Carolina trailer with a salvaged PowerMac G3, intense faith in God, belief in human potential, and an uncanny philosophical bent hacks his way from congressional hallways at 17 to strategists for movements that taught him how power really works. Armed with degrees in Theology and Business Administration, he caught the early internet wave when most people were still figuring out social media.
One of the OG influencers when Vine followers and Twitter engagement mattered, Bostic rode that wave into Times Square billboards and national ads.
Appearing in advertisements for American Eagle, Verizon, Microsoft, Robert Wayne, Original Penguin, and Nokia taught him attention economics and that entertainment is fundamentally broken.
Peak timeline: waking up in theology school trending on Entertainment Weekly for kissing a robot in a Harper Collins trailer. While everyone else learned essay structure, he learned how to make millions look where he wanted.
CYSTRA launched in 2017 as the world's most overqualified living-room operation.
Today healthcare systems, energy companies, and law firms worth hundreds of millions call when they need infrastructure that scales with tomorrow, not yesterday.
Deploy AI-driven systems that make technology invisible so humans can crush impossible problems.
Chief Strategist for the campaigns you read about.
Love it, hate it, study it in poli-sci classes—you know about it. As an original founder, Bostic architected the movement that made Americans comfortable asking uncomfortable questions while expertly navigating one of the most hostile media climates in political history.
Currently deploying AI that enhances humans, democratizing information, frantically buying Bitcoin, advancing digital privacy (surveillance capitalism is cringe), and developing his next film project (lawyers nervous).