Contrary Lore
Contrary's first full-time hire.
Who is Will Robbins?
The new digital bank from Palmer Luckey named after Tolkien lore.
What is Erebor?
This president made the cover of "TIME" Magazine 64 times, almost twice as much as anyone else.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The year Twitter was launched.
What is 2006?
2 + 2
What is 4? (Expressed as the sum of two equal numbers!)
Contrary’s first investment.
What is Cortex Health?
In 2021, this NFT marketplace hit $1.5 billion valuation after a16z’s $1M series A.
What is OpenSea?
The only president to be sworn in by a woman.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The year facebook was launched.
What is 2004?
The composer of a famous ballet set on Christmas Eve, which premiered in 1892.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The name of the company Eric was working on prior to Contrary.
What is CheckIt?
Originally a failed gaming company called Tiny Speck, this workplace app pivoted.
What is Slack?
The first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The year the first iPhone was released.
What is 2007?
The younger member of a father-son tech dynasty that later became US Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Who is Thomas Watson Jr.?
The person who let Eric sleep on their dorm room floor during the early days of Contrary.
Who is Colin Parsons?
This legal-AI Startup closed a series D in 2024 at a $3 billion valuation.
What is Harvey?
On April 14, 1910 he became the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch to open a major league season.
Who is William Howard Taft?
The year the internet was made available to the public.
What is 1993?
The name of a fictional AI eventually able to reverse entropy, in a short story whose author inspired the likes of Elon Musk.
What is Multivac?
This author's memo on being “both contrarian and right” inspired the naming of Contrary.
Who is Howard Marks?
Before founding Stripe, Patrick and John Collison sold this company for $5 million in 2010.
What is Auctomatic?
This president vetoed more legislation than any other president.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The year the first electronic general-purpose digital computer was built.
What is 1945?
The Platonic soul part represented by a noble horse in the chariot allegory.
What is Thumos?