跟进：佛州空难遇难者 Adam Robinson 是谁：从华尔街交易员到奥斯汀科技创业者

11月2日，TMZ、《纽约邮报》等媒体披露了11月1日佛罗里达州 Learjet 60 私人飞机坠毁事故中7名乘客的身份，其中最受美国科技圈关注的，是得克萨斯州科技企业家 Adam Robinson 一家。这架飞机当天从得克萨斯州奥斯汀飞往巴哈马，途中在佛罗里达州棕榈滩县 Greenacres 坠毁，机上2名机组人员与7名乘客共9人全部遇难。

Adam Robinson 今年44岁，在休斯敦一带长大，2003年毕业于莱斯大学，主修经济学，在校期间是校篮球队队员。毕业后他进入华尔街，先后在雷曼兄弟和巴克莱资本从事信用违约掉期交易，前后约八年，经历了2008年金融危机。

离开金融行业后，他与兄弟共同创办电子邮件营销公司 Robly，全靠自筹资金起家。据他本人生前在访谈与自述中介绍，Robly 后来以八位数的价格出售。Robly 内部一个帮客户识别网站访客邮箱的功能意外受欢迎，被分拆出来做成 GetEmails，后来发展为 Retention.com，专门为电商品牌识别匿名访客、沉淀自有客户数据。他自述，这家公司零外部融资，四年做到约2,200万美元年经常性收入。

2024年，他又推出 RB2B，把访客识别用到企业对企业的销售与营销场景；2026年，他再推出新项目 MoltSets，继续做销售数据服务。按他生前受访时的说法，几家公司合计约32名员工、约3,500万美元年收入，全部不靠风险投资、自筹滚动发展，这在美国初创圈里颇为少见，他也因此常在播客与社交平台上谈「自筹创业」。

他的妻子 Helen Sharp 婚后亦称 Helen Robinson，是一名陶艺创作者，后来全职从事艺术。两人育有女儿 Emma（4岁）和孩子 Charlie（2岁）。11月1日同机的还有孩子的保姆 Anita Maria Cetina，以及夫妇二人的友人 Rachael Reed 与 Charmi Fehr。就在空难发生前几天，他还在公开撰写谈科技与创业的文章、介绍新公司的进展。

家属11月2日发布的联合声明说，Adam Robinson 与 Helen Sharp 是「尽责的父母」，两个孩子是「他们生命的光」。事故原因仍在由国家运输安全委员会（NTSB）调查。官方对遗体的正式辨认仍需 DNA 比对，尚未发布官方名单。

关联：跟进：佛州空难家属发布遇难者照片与悼念声明：55岁机长与20岁副驾驶身份确认

关联：跟进：佛州空难7名乘客身份由家属公布，县政府请求宣布紧急状态

（来源：TMZ、《纽约邮报》、Retention.com 公开资料）

Follow-Up: Who Was Adam Robinson? The Austin Tech Founder Killed in the Florida Learjet Crash

On November 2, TMZ, the New York Post and other outlets identified the seven passengers killed in the November 1 Learjet 60 crash in Florida. The name drawing the most attention in the U.S. tech world was Texas technology entrepreneur Adam Robinson and his family. The jet was flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when it went down in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, Florida, killing all nine people aboard — two crew members and seven passengers.

Robinson, 44, grew up in the Houston area and graduated from Rice University in 2003, where he studied economics and played varsity basketball. He then went to Wall Street, spending about eight years as a credit-default-swap trader at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, a span that included the 2008 financial crisis.

After leaving finance, he co-founded the email marketing company Robly with his brother, building it entirely with their own money. In interviews and his own accounts, Robinson said Robly was eventually sold for an eight-figure sum. A feature inside Robly that identified website visitors' email addresses proved so popular with customers that it was spun out as GetEmails, which grew into Retention.com, a service that helps e-commerce brands identify anonymous visitors and build first-party customer data. Robinson said the company took no outside funding and reached about $22 million in annual recurring revenue in four years.

In 2024 he launched RB2B, applying visitor identification to business-to-business sales and marketing, and in 2026 he rolled out a new venture, MoltSets, in sales data services. In interviews before his death, Robinson put the combined operation at about 32 employees and roughly $35 million in annual revenue, all bootstrapped without venture capital — a rarity in the U.S. startup world that made him a frequent podcast and social-media voice on bootstrapping.

His wife, Helen Sharp, also known after marriage as Helen Robinson, was a ceramic artist who later made art full time. The couple's children are Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2. Also aboard on November 1 were the children's nanny, Anita Maria Cetina, and the couple's friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr. Just days before the crash, Robinson was still publishing pieces about technology and entrepreneurship and promoting his new company.

In their joint statement on November 2, the families called Adam Robinson and Helen Sharp "devoted parents" and the children "the light of their lives." The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. Official identification of the remains still requires DNA matching, and no official list has been released.

Related: Follow-Up: Families Release Photos and Tributes After Florida Learjet Crash; Captain, 55, and Co-Pilot, 20, Identified by Families

Related: Follow-Up: Families Name the Seven Passengers Killed in the Florida Crash; County Seeks Emergency Declaration

(Source: TMZ, New York Post, Retention.com public materials)

来源：TMZ、《纽约邮报》、Retention.com 公开资料

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图片来源：图：Adam Robinson，Retention.com 联合创始人兼首席执行官。照片来源：Retention.com 官网团队页。 Photo: Adam Robinson, co-founder and CEO of Retention.com. Photo: Retention.com team page.

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