Nick Rubin

San Francisco, California, USA

Bio

Professional summary

Nick Rubin is a generalist early-stage investor at First Round. Before First Round, he founded Sendo, a Y Combinator-backed SMS developer platform for AI companies. He studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford, organized TreeHacks for three years, and previously interned as a software engineer at Hipcamp and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

First Round CapitalInvestorPresent
SendoFounder
HipcampSoftware Engineer Intern
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietySoftware Engineer Intern

Education

Stanford UniversitySymbolic Systems

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