Will Robbins
@whrobbins
General Partner @contrary
THE CASE FOR @CLUELY: Gen Z chooses to tear down a gatekeeping system rather than reform it. - Up to one third of students at elite high schools abuse disability policies to unfairly get extra time on exams. - @WSJ reported a 10th-grader at a private high school estimates that…
Why can Elon automate PhDs but not the DMV? Politics is much harder and more important to society than Silicon Valley will admit!
Insane that Elon Musk has pulled it off again, absolutely crushing the AI wars with Grok 4. Summarizing the core announcements: — Post-training RL spend == pretraining spend — $3/M input told, $15/M output toks, 256k context, price 2x beyond 128k — #1 on Humanity’s Last Exam…
Removing the costly friction of day-to-day ops is not just a nice feature: it's essential when businesses get squeezed by increasing rent, labor costs, and regulatory requirements. Ramp Dynamism! 🇺🇸
Finance teams waste hours chasing receipts and answering weird policy questions. Now they don’t have to. Introducing our first @tryramp AI agents. Upload your company policy and put the bullshit work on autopilot so your finance team can actually do finance.
Congrats to the Moment team on the Series B and amazing LPL partnership! @_MomentHQ is one to watch!
First tweet ever. Hopefully the Series C won’t be the second. @_MomentHQ has raised a $36M Series B led by @indexventures to automate the $150T fixed income market. We're also announcing our partnership with LPL Financial, the largest broker-dealer in the U.S. Our team…
"In the first quarter of 2025, as per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, productivity is decreasing, even with superintelligent AI allegedly right around the corner." 🤔
Wrote about @Cluely, @McKinsey and the scourge of Economic Nihilism for @palladiummag palladiummag.com/2025/06/30/eco…
Example of how carbon and human environmentalism are at odds: carbon-efficient building materials are often toxic. @nytimes on homes that survived the LA fires: "Everyday items become poisons when they are set on fire. A plastic shower rod releases formaldehyde. Burning rubber,…
The era of environmentalism obsessed with carbon is ending. The era of environmentalism focused on human health is finally beginning! “There is very strong evidence and also strong confidence that both these chemicals are contributing to health disorders”
Last year, a startup founder chartered a jet to recruit a 22-year-old software engineer friend of mine. This pushed me to reflect on the valuations of AI companies
Today, Ramp reached a new valuation: $16 billion. A testament to saving 40,000 businesses $10 billion and 27.5 million hours.
Car tires (and the soles of your shoe) are made of plastic that we call synthetic rubber. You can buy shoes made of real rubber/latex, but I’m not sure if you can buy tires that don’t put plastic in the air and land.
Though fume-free, their brake pads and tyres disintegrate over time econ.st/44tkB7N
The Kinetic vision: synthesis of capital and entertainment. Proud @kinetic_xyz investor!
Kinetic is now launching! The password gate has dropped. The first-ever @Solana swap arcade is here. Earn points, build streaks, and fight it out on the leaderboard. After doing $100 million of trading volume in Season 0. Season 1 is LIVE! Play now: kinetic.xyz
Today, we announced the launch of Zepto Atom - an advanced data insights subscription for Consumer Brands in India. The Zepto Atom subscription is a top-up to the already existing Zepto Brand Portal (which gives brands listed on the Zepto platform basic day-to-day data on their…
Breaking news: our 100+ year old electrical grid is not designed for modern demand or technology. Enter @voltraenergy:
I’m thrilled to announce we’ve led @voltraenergy's pre-seed. Breakthroughs in energy technology across batteries, nuclear, solar, wind, and more speak to the potential for resource abundance and meaningful progress in energy production. Energy demand, spurred on by rapid…
Financial policy in higher ed is simply a reminder that Khan Academy completely failed. Recorded lectures from world-class educators available to all... and nothing about the system adapted to that!
The Killer-App of AI isn't Chatbots, it's Social | Reid Hoffman Interview Mark Zuckerberg @finkd is making AI friends to supplement human friends: “The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15.” @reidhoffman believes this is fundamentally the wrong approach. AI…
"Germany-based SAP was founded in 1972; U.K.-based Sage in 1981. NetSuite, the U.S. business acquired by Oracle for about $9 billion, by comparison is a spring chicken, founded as recently as 1998." I want to meet every ERP startup! Article by @alexrkonrad:
My big takeaway from our @UpstartsMediaCo exclusive on Doss and its $18M Series A today 👀 Doss and SaaS startups like it aren't winning just because they embedded AI, but because AI allows them to sell and implement faster. It's a sprint to value. upstartsmedia.com/p/ai-startup-t…