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      <h2 class="mb-4 font-serif">👋 Hey there! I'm Rob Olsthoorn</h2>
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        Well, that's it.
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        Somehow you were curious enough to find my personal website. Thanks. I'm
        glad you're here.
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        Here's a slice of who I am and what I think about. I hope it's what you
        came here for.
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        Love, Rob
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      <h3 class="mb-2">Early life</h3>
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          Born in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands - my parents moved me to Boca
          Raton, Florida where I grew up. I was not Jewish.
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          Sold candy in middle school, fireworks to friends, and used toys to my
          siblings - not the most admirable.
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          Went to the University of Florida. Studied computer engineering, tried
          to start my first company, Bartertown (ended)
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          Made it out of the swamp, by working at Microsoft - then later
          Nextdoor under the KP Eng '17 fellows program
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      <h3 class="mb-2">Later on</h3>
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        <li>Built software for realtors at Nextdoor to sell homes</li>
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          YC W20 - Started my second company,
          <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/laguna-2">Laguna</a>.
          Learned a lot. Built cool things.
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          Spent time designing the future of work with dOrg, a crypto based
          self-organizing work group a DAO. Brought in ~$500k to the org.
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          Went from 0-$1.5M in GMV for Whatnot NFTs. Led projects on our
          non-live selling marketplace
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      <h3 class="mb-2">Now</h3>
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          Enjoying life. Very excited about Voice AI and automotive business
          opportunities
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        <li>Learning about the world</li>
        <li><a href="https://twitter.com/rob_olsthoorn">Twitter</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/robolsthoorn/">Instagram</a></li>
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        <li>
          <a
            href="https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering/how-whatnot-is-building-the-future-of-nft-live-shopping-5cedbfc115a7"
            >Whatnot and NFTs (Aug. 2021)</a
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        <li>
          <a href="https://github.com/Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis"
            >Unofficial APIs (2020)</a
          >
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        <li>
          <a
            href="https://rolsthoorn.medium.com/splitting-rent-is-awkward-c81f80e49d80"
            >Perfect rent pricing for all (2018)</a
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      <h3 class="mb-2">Links</h3>
      If we're all just LLMs, here's my training data:
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        <li><i>Blogs</i></li>
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          <li>
            <a href="https://longform.asmartbear.com/"
              >Asmartbear (Jason Cohen)</a
            >
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          <li><a href="https://sive.rs/">Derek Sivers</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://www.gwern.net/">Gwern</a></li>
          <li>
            <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html">Paul Graham</a>
          </li>
          <li><a href="http://patrickcollison.com/">Patrick Collison</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://avc.com/">Fred Wilson</a></li>
          <li>
            <a
              href="https://a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-pmarca-Blog-Archives.pdf"
              >pmarca</a
            >
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          <li><a href="https://vitalik.ca/">Vitalik Buterin</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://dcgross.com/">Daniel Gross</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://nat.org/">Nat Friedman</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://blog.eladgil.com/">Elad Gil</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://www.kalzumeus.com/">Patrick Mackenzie</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://stratechery.com/">Ben Thompson</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/">Joel Spolsky</a></li>
        </ul>

        <li><i>Podcasts</i></li>
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          <li>
            <a href="https://thehustle.co/my-first-million-podcast/"
              >My first million</a
            >
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/">Infinite loops</a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a
              href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invest-like-the-best-with-patrick-oshaughnessy/id1154105909"
              >Invest like the best</a
            >
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          <li>
            <a href="https://www.dealershipguy.com/">Car dealership guy</a>
          </li>
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        <li><i>Books</i></li>
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          <li>
            <a
              href="https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958"
              >Snow crash</a
            >
          </li>
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            <a
              href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Everything-Store-Brad-Stone-audiobook/dp/B00FJFJOLC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1S1WOKWPIS5EQ&keywords=everything+store&qid=1673756826&sprefix=everything+sto%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1"
              >Everything store</a
            >
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          <li><a href="https://amzn.to/3XYMcda">Total Recall</a></li>
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        <li><i>Specific articles</i></li>
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          <li>
            <a href="https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/"
              >Negotiating</a
            >
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          <li>
            <a
              href="https://www.navalmanack.com/almanack-of-naval-ravikant/find-a-position-of-leverage"
              >Forms of leverage</a
            >
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          <li>
            <a
              href="https://a16z.com/2020/01/09/progressive-decentralization-crypto-product-management/"
              >When to decentralize</a
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          <li>
            <a href="https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/"
              >Engineer's mindset on productivity</a
            >
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/stables-and-volatiles/"
              >Stables and volatiles</a
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