(inserted!) (inserted!)Adam Robinson, 44, and Helen Sharp, were among the nine killed when their $2 million Learjet 60 that they chartered from Austin to the Bahamas nosedived in Palm Beach County, Florida, family members have confirmed.
Also aboard were friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr and nanny Anita Maria Apellido Cetina.
Robinson, who was based in Austin, was founder and CEO of software companies Retention.com and RB2B. He previously worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He went to Rice, got rejected from every internship he applied for, and got in the back door at Lehman Brothers through a contact of his brother’s (his words, though he says it was never confirmed). He spent years as a credit default swap trader and made millions in his 20s.
Meanwhile his roommates started Vimeo in their apartment, and he watched them build it while he put on a tie at 6am. He wanted what they had badly, because it looked like they loved it.
He left eventually, with a couple million dollars of his own money and, in his words, an enormous amount of false confidence.
Then came Robly, the email company he built with his brother. They each said they’d put in $300k. It turned into $1m each, handed over $50k at a time, with his brother having to ask his wife every month whether they could do it again. Adam said it was a terrible period.
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