Meet Eliam Medina, CEO Of Willing, The Y Combinator Startup That Is Rewriting Wills

Think making a will is easy? Eliam Medina, cofounder of Willing.com, says think again.

Think making a will is easy? Eliam Medina, cofounder of Willing, says think again. Eliam thinks writing a will should be easy and free — no money or lawyers. Eliam told me that more than 50% of adults don’t have a will, a “more than 50%” that, up until two hours ago, included yours truly. That’s right, I am now the proud owner of my own will! And I can attest the whole process took under 15 minutes (and only that long because I was watching Frozen in the background).

Willing has the backing of Silicon Valley elites including Y Combinator, the early stage Silicon Valley fund behind Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb (and a slew of other unicorns), along with Ashton Kutcher’s firm Sound Ventures, Gary Vaynerchuk, and 500 Startups. The company launched publicly on July 13th and, according to Eliam, has already made close to ten thousand wills across the U.S. Neither Eliam and his cofounder Rob Dyson are lawyers.  So what motivates someone with no legal experience to start an estate planning platform and what makes Willing so much better than the alternatives like Rocket Lawyer or LegalZoom? I will (pun intended) let Eliam tell you himself.


Zach Abramowitz is a former Biglaw associate and currently CEO and co-founder of ReplyAll. You can follow Zach on Twitter (@zachabramowitz) or reach him by email at zach@replyall.me.

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