whrobbins | 1 year ago | on: Ycombinations.com: All possible combinations of every "X for Y" YC company
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whrobbins | 3 years ago | on: Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows
"Smooth transition of power" is a good way to put it in the modern era. In centuries past, citizens would pray on their hands and knees for a system as quick and streamlined as this one.
When there is ambiguity in who holds power, there is conflict, instability, bloodshed, etc. This is why countries used to throw enormous festivals celebrating the birth of a monarch's first-born son — it means the succession plan has become entirely unambiguous, and stability has been ensured for years to come.
whrobbins | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Contrary Talent
Hey HN -- today we launched Contrary Talent.
We created it because even if you go to an incredible school like Stanford, only 5% or 10% of the talented people out there go to the same school as you.
By building a network across dozens of universities, we can 10x the college experience.
Members of Contrary Talent plug into our network of backers (including the founders of Tesla, Reddit, SoFi, and many more great companies) for mentorship, get fast-tracked into cool startup jobs, and we'll fund companies members start or join.
Basically, we're trying to productize being a valley insider, and bring that to every top-tier builder.
whrobbins | 6 years ago | on: Home(work) – bringing serendipity to students kicked off campus
Hey HN, today I'm launching Home(work), a community for students that had school cancelled.
It's no coincidence that FB and Microsoft both started during Reading Period when Harvard had no class.
With support from the founders of Reddit, DoorDash and more, we're looking for builders to hack on stuff.
whrobbins | 7 years ago | on: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
This issue stands for apps as well. I once had someone try to buy [1] my popular Android app just to replace it with malware which would then be pushed to users through an innocuous update. What's so interesting to me is that there's no good way to prevent or even detect this.
[1] https://willrobbins.org/a-clever-malware-tactic-and-why-ther...
whrobbins | 8 years ago | on: Contrary: a university-focused VC backed by cofounders from Tesla, Twitch, more
Contrary Capital (contrarycap.com) consists of 100+ student investors across dozens of universities. This is something I've been helping work on for several months now and I'm stoked to finally launch it!
80% of our LPs have started $1bn+ companies and we invest 50k-200k.
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"Software for software companies"
Prescient!