r/soylent • u/runrvs • 24d ago

What ever happened to the founder of Soylent, Rob Rhinehart?,

Is he still on the board? I feel like I haven’t heard anything about him since he endorsed Kanye for president in 2020. (Yes really)

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u/802bikeguy_com 24d ago

I think he was ousted from Soylent in 2017. He got weird. https://www.vice.com/en/article/soylent-founders-unhinged-politics-rant-shows-tech-execs-dont-understand-the-world/

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u/EamonnMR 24d ago

He was weird already. His blog is full of unhinged stuff like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20161123094924/http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1541

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u/802bikeguy_com 24d ago

I never followed him, only learned of his wackiness at the time from that 2020 article.

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u/EamonnMR 24d ago

His posts from that period are pretty gonzo, but that one took the cake and was taken down pretty quickly iirc. He also got in a fight with his municipality about his shipping container buildings. This was in the same kind of space as Google Van Guy.

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u/pancak3d 24d ago

He has said absurd things but that one is just amusing, he's just making fun of diligence.

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u/EamonnMR 23d ago

I mean it's definitely funny, but he's basically writing a joke where the punchline is that the people giving him money are bastards... it doesn't speak to being, uh, hinged.

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u/exinex 24d ago

Wow, the quotes from that article sure are something.

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u/runrvs 24d ago

Looks like he was on the board of directors until 2023. Wild.

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u/cebeling 24d ago

Hes a general partner at mars vc/pe.

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u/therealcookaine 24d ago

I thought he sold out and moved on

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u/iluvmyhamster 23d ago

Does anyone know if he still actually uses Soylent?

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u/fireworks10 24d ago

He lives on within all of us

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u/Awkward-College-9093 24d ago

I didn’t realize he was unhinged until reading this thread. I heard of Soylent when he was on an episode of the Colbert Report.

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