Contrary Lore
Contrary's first full-time hire.
Who is Will Robbins?
This app started as a gaming company called Tiny Speck.
What is Slack?
The president on the $100 bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The year Twitter was launched.
What is 2006?
2 + 2
What is 4? (Expressed as the sum of two equal numbers!)
Contrary’s first unicorn.
What is Vise?
In 2021, this NFT marketplace hit $1.5 billion valuation after a16z’s $1M series A.
What is OpenSea?
She was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
The year Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook.
What is 2008?
The composer of a famous ballet set on Christmas Eve, which premiered in 1892.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The startup Eric worked at before starting Contrary.
What is Kamcord?
This legal-AI Startup closed a Series D in 2024 at a $3 billion valuation.
What is Harvey?
This president made the cover of "TIME" Magazine 64 times, almost twice as much as anyone else.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The year of the first U.S. moon walk.
What is 1969?
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?
Elon Musk has started this # of companies.
What is 6 (Zip2, X.com (Paypal), Neuralink, SpaceX, Boring Company, xAI)?
The first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The year the first Macintosh computer was released.
What is 1984?
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?