Hello, I'm

Robert Smithson

Founder & CEO of Just Insure. Cambridge philosopher turned serial entrepreneur.

Robert Smithson

About

I'm a British entrepreneur with three decades of building companies — from live sports data to developer tools to insurance. I read Philosophy at Cambridge, spent years in fund management, and have founded a series of businesses including Genius Sports, PythonAnywhere and, today, Just Insure. When I'm not starting companies, I'm usually flying or reading detective fiction.

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Selected projects

A few of the things I've built and been part of.

Insurtech

Just Insure

Pay-per-mile car insurance that prices on how you actually drive — not your age or ZIP code.

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Product

zwip

Ephemeral chat for temporary conversations — chat in seconds, gone in minutes.

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Developer tools

Provision

LLM-powered server setup — describe your server in Markdown, Provision does the rest.

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Also: Ballpark · politicalbetting.com · Genius Sports · PythonAnywhere · Arete Research

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The best way to reach me is by email.

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