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Going Direct Conversations#12 Packy McCormick - Techno-Industrial Revolution & Why Vertical Integrators Will WinJordan has a conversation with Packy McCormick, founder of the Not Boring newsletter and Not Boring Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. Packy discusses his journey from writing to investing, the techno-industrial revolution, and why integrators, not aggregators, will define the future. They also dive into the power of optimism, decentralization, and why owning the means of production is key to disrupting incumbents.Follow Packy on X - @packyMFollow Jordan on X - @jrwolfeLinks to Packy’s Work:Not Boring Newsletter - https://ww...2025-04-1357 min
Not Boring RadioForsaking Industrialism with Conrad Bastable (Hyperlegible 006)In this timely conversation, Conrad Bastable joins Packy to break down his epic essay Forsaking Industrialism and explore why the West has abandoned manufacturing while China built a world-beating industrial platform over decades. Read it here for the full experience: Forsaking Industrialism Conrad has been planning this essay for months, and he couldn't have dropped it at a better time. It's a comprehensive look at what China got right and what real reindustrialization would mean. We dive into how EU regulations inadvertently benefited Chinese manufacturing, why tariffs alone can't solve America's industrial challenges, and what...2025-04-131h 34
Not Boring by Packy McCormickHyperlegible 003: Julian LehrHi friends 👋, Happy Wednesday! After almost two years, Julian Lehr is BACK to writing.He wrote a piece called The case against conversational interfaces, arguing that we're not going to be talking to our computers instead of using graphical user interfaces. GUIs work pretty well!Instead, he thinks that conversational interfaces are going to be a complement to existing workflows. We'll talk to our AI while doing what we do now, to do things like tell other apps to start doing things while we stay in flow.Julian shares his...2025-04-0239 min
Not Boring RadioJulian Lehr, The Case Against Conversational InterfacesIn Episode 003 of Hyperlegible, host Packy McCormick talks with Julian Lehr about his recent essay The Case Against Conversational Interfaces and why natural language might not be the ideal way to interact with computers. Julian explains why conversational AI should complement rather than replace graphical user interfaces, and shares insights about his unique writing process.Julian is one of the most creative writers on the internet. Go read his work at julian.digital.Hyperlegible is sponsored by our friends at Readwise. You can find links to all of our conversations, and all of the episodes...2025-04-0239 min
Not Boring by Packy McCormickPrimer: From Software to SchoolsIn April 2022, Packy wrote a Deep Dive on Primer:https://www.notboring.co/p/primer-the-ambitious-home-for-ambitiousThree years later, a lot has changed. Primer is building schools. The opportunity is both bigger and more challenging than it was then. In this conversation, Packy and Primer CEO Ryan Delk discuss the need to fix in K-12 education. Ryan shares insights on Primer's transition from a software-focused company to a vertically integrated Microschool model. He also addresses regulatory hurdles, the market potential for innovative educational solutions, and the vision for making quality education accessible to all...2025-03-0546 min
Not Boring RadioRyan Delk: To Fix the School System, Build SchoolsIn April 2022, Packy wrote a Deep Dive on Primer:https://www.notboring.co/p/primer-the-ambitious-home-for-ambitiousThree years later, a lot has changed. Primer is building schools. The opportunity is both bigger and more challenging than it was then.In this conversation, Packy and Primer CEO Ryan Delk discuss the need to fix in K-12 education. Ryan shares insights on Primer's transition from a software-focused company to a vertically integrated Microschool model. He also addresses regulatory hurdles, the market potential for innovative educational solutions, and the vision for making quality education accessible to all...2025-03-0546 min
SourceryPacky McCormick, Not Boring | How writing led to investing in Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, VardaPacky McCormickI've teamed up with Passes to grant us access to a pro podcast studio in LA, exclusive early releases, audience Q&A, & BTS content. Sign up for Passes for more Sourcery content! https://www.passes.com/Follow Sourcery for the latest updates! https://www.sourcery.vc/Molly on X: https://x.com/MollySOSheaPacky on X: https://x.com/packyMTIMESTAMPS:1:30 - Growing to 239k+ Subscribers5:00...2025-02-141h 01
Trends with FriendsFart Coin Frenzy & Rectal Rotations in Meme Coins | Special Guest Packy McCormickStep into the world of trends, technology, and market insights with Howard Lindzon, Phil Pearlman, JC Parets, Michael Parekh, and special guest Packy McCormick! From Fart Coin to Nvidia's groundbreaking AI advancements, this episode dives into the intersection of innovation, humor, and strategy as we explore the opportunities and chaos shaping 2025.
📅 Recorded live on January 7, 2025
🎙️ Special Guest: Packy McCormick
🔑 Brought to you by Stocktwits
Key Topics Covered:
• The rise of meme coins like Fartcoin and their cultural impact
• Nvidia’s roadmap for "physical AI" in robots and autonomous vehicles
• Strategies for thriving amidst market rotations and tech disruption
• The intersection of AI, m...2025-01-081h 07
The New Founding PodcastThe Millennium of Optimism - Packy McCormick | #50Today, Santiago & Josh interview Packy McCormick, Founder of Not Boring and a16z Crypto advisor, to discuss Packy's early career and launch of the Not Boring newsletter, his favorite startups, some of the most exciting companies shaking up the defense and energy industries, and what the future holds for American Dynamism.
We cover:
> The American Millennium
> Starting a newsletter during COVID
> Nuclear as a Civilization-level unlock
> Techno-industrials and the call of adventure
> "The crypto hype was good, actually"
> You'll eat fake meat (and like it)
Packy is the Founder of Not Boring, a weekly newsletter covering strategy and finance through the s...2024-08-301h 07
AI and IHow Packy McCormick Finds His Next Big Idea - Ep. 29One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest.This episode is sponsored by Create. If you want to maximize your gains, both with your body and with ChatGPT, try creatinine gummies from Create. Place your order through this link to get a 30 percent discount: https://trycreate.co/products/creatine-monohydrate-gummies-270-count?discount=every24Packy McCormick’s job is to find, articulate, and invest behind the next big idea.He writes Not Boring, a newsletter that analyzes technology and startups for 200,000 subscribers every week. He also invests in early stage com...2024-08-071h 13
AI & IHow Packy McCormick Finds His Next Big Idea - Ep. 29One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest.This episode is sponsored by Create. If you want to maximize your gains, both with your body and with ChatGPT, try creatinine gummies from Create. Place your order through this link to get a 30 percent discount: https://trycreate.co/products/creatine-monohydrate-gummies-270-count?discount=every24 Packy McCormick’s job is to find, articulate, and invest behind the next big idea.He writes Not Boring, a newsletter that analyzes technology and startups for 200,000 subscribers every week. He also invests in...2024-08-071h 13
Good Work with Barrett BrooksTechnology, Optimism, and Embracing Bold Ideas with Packy McCormickPacky McCormick is known for his unique insights into technology and startups. As the founder of Not Boring, he’s built a passionate audience of more than 200,000 people through his knack for deep analysis and genuine storytelling. Packy is a vibe-setter with a career spanning writing, investing, and podcasting (to name a few). Over the past four years, Packy has built Not Boring into one of the most trusted, hilarious, and unique publications covering the bleeding edge of deep tech startups working to solve hard but important problems.This week, Barrett talks with Packy about everything from th...2024-04-301h 42
How I WritePacky McCormick: How To Publish Your Best Ideas OnlinePacky McCormick is proof that writing online can attract real-world opportunities you never dreamed of. He went from 20 Substack subscribers to a $40 million venture fund — and he’s still growing. In this episode, we dive into the three main “how’s” of Packy’s growth.First, he has a distinct, unforgettable style. His business-meets-memes newsletter, Not Boring, has amassed 220,000+ subscribers because his “funny finance guy” flair gives him an edge. Not to mention, it all started when he took the first-ever cohort of Write of Passage. (I may be biased, but seriously, that’s when it started.)Next, Packy s...2024-02-281h 23
"Age of Miracles"Mass Manufacturing Micro-sized Nuclear Reactors with Jordan Bramble and Julia DeWahl of AntaresHere's our full-length interview with Jordan Bramble and our own Julia DeWahl, co-founders of Antares, where we dive deep into how Antares plans on manufacturing in mass micro-sized nuclear reactors to provide abundant energy for all.🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqjSPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS AND BIASES | GIVEWELL | ANROKImagine total control over your company's spending with Rippling Spend, the all-in-one platform for expense reports, corporate cards, and bill pay. Visit https://www.rippling.com/turpentine for a fr...2024-01-2042 min"Age of Miracles"A World with Abundant Fusion Energy with David Kirtley of Helion EnergyHere's our full-length interview with David Kirtley, founder of Helion Energy, where we dive deep into the need for fusion as a replacement for fossil fuels.🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqjSPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS AND BIASES | GIVEWELL | ANROKImagine total control over your company's spending with Rippling Spend, the all-in-one platform for expense reports, corporate cards, and bill pay. Visit https://www.rippling.com/turpentine for a free demo and one month free trial.2024-01-1251 min"Age of Miracles"Unlocking Nuclear Power at Scale with Bret Kugelmass of Last EnergyHere's our full-length interview with Bret Kugelmass, founder of Last Energy, where we dive deep into nuclear manufacturing and the importance of manufacturing efficiency.🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqjSPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS AND BIASES | GIVEWELL | ANROKImagine total control over your company's spending with Rippling Spend, the all-in-one platform for expense reports, corporate cards, and bill pay. Visit https://www.rippling.com/turpentine for a free demo and one month free trial.Ad...2024-01-0547 min"Age of Miracles"Building Nuclear for the Moon with Tyler Bernstein of Zeno PowerWe're kicking off the first of our bonus episodes with Tyler Bernstein, founder and CEO of Zeno Power, where he shares in-depth how they're creating radioisotope power systems for lunar applications.🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqjSPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS AND BIASES | GIVEWELL | ANROKImagine total control over your company's spending with Rippling Spend, the all-in-one platform for expense reports, corporate cards, and bill pay. Visit https://www.rippling.com/turpentine for a free demo and one mont...2023-12-2941 min
"Age of Miracles"Energy for an Age of MiraclesWe can live in an Age of Miracles, but it’s going to take a lot of work. Energy abundance is the most important thing we can work towards as a species. More than simply surviving climate change, we have the opportunity to unlock a new level of human thriving if we can successfully navigate this transition. That’s why we chose to do the first season of Age of Miracles on the energy sources of the future. In this episode of Age of Miracles, the final episode of season one, Packy and Julia reflect on the importa...2023-12-2237 min
"Age of Miracles"Fusion FoundersIn the bizarro relay marathon that is the fusion race, the baton is firmly in the hands of the startups. The outcome, to be sure, is still uncertain, but the question isn’t whether humanity will achieve commercial fusion, but which companies will, with which approaches, when?Fusion, many believe, will be one of humanity’s greatest triumphs: we will be able to generate energy in the same way that stars do, right on earth. And in this episode, Packy and Julia talk to some of the people who are most likely to make it happen.The...2023-12-151h 15
"Age of Miracles"The Fusion MarathonThere’s this joke that fusion is always 30 years away. 50 years ago, it was 30 years away. 20 years ago, it was still thirty years away. Today, though… we might be within a decade. We spent the first half of the season on nuclear fission, and the last episode on many of the other energy sources that will play a role in meeting humanity’s growing energy demands and building an Age of Miracles. All of them will be critical. But there’s a growing chorus of people who believe that if we’re going to meet the demand fo...2023-12-0855 min
"Age of Miracles"The Case For All the Other Energy SourcesPacky and Julia have spent the first five episodes of Age of Miracles diving into the past and present of nuclear fission—before jumping from the yin to the yang and covering nuclear fusion in the second half of this season, today we wanted to take a step back and talk about all the non-nuclear energy sources out there.We ask this icebreaker question to every guest we bring onto the show: "What does the pie chart of energy sources look like in the US in the year 2050?" From advocating for the widely accused fossil fuels like oi...2023-12-011h 53
"Age of Miracles"Nuclear MailbagThis week, Packy and Julia take a break from our regularly scheduled narrative programming to look back on the past five episodes we've published focused on nuclear fission—and address news stories, feedback, and listener questions collected through this season so far.We cover:
Illinois pushing back on the nuclear moratorium, Nuscale's cancelled contracts, COP 28
Why QA makes building new nuclear so difficult, solar cost curves, and more listener feedback on episodes 1-5
Investing in nuclear, nuclear waste recycling, how to create more political support for the AP1000, and more listener questions
2023-11-2459 min
"Age of Miracles"Fission Founders, Part 2: Designing Advanced Nuclear Reactor StartupsLet's dive into the world of advanced nuclear startups—where founders are playing entrepreneurship on hard-mode, and navigating how to build new reactor designs, sell to new markets, and forge new regulatory pathways.This episode is the second focused on nuclear fission startup founders—while last week Packy and Julia spoke with entrepreneurs who laser-focused on the problem of manufacturing ready-made designs at scale, this new crop of founders featured are tackling a seemingly even more difficult task of creating new forms of nuclear reactors from scratch.As a16z Am...2023-11-172h 04
"Age of Miracles"Fission Founders, Part 1: Manufacturing NuclearWhat if we treated building nuclear more like a manufacturing challenge than a construction challenge? How could nuclear benefit from the tried-and-true methodologies of other large industrial industries like ship-building and oil and gas to make nuclear as cheap as solar and wind to produce?In this episode – the first of two with leading nuclear fission startup founders – Packy and Julia talk to a new crop of nuclear entrepreneurs who are focused on manufacturing small modular reactors at scale. Drawing on best practices from very different industries like building reactors in shipyards or adapting the...2023-11-1056 min
"Age of Miracles"Nuclear EconomicsIf we just tried to implement and scale the technology we have today for large scale nuclear reactors, with no innovation on reactor designs or business models, could we do it? How hard (or expensive) could it really be?In this episode, Packy and Julia dig into the nitty gritty of these issues and look at what it actually takes to build a plant in America (and around the globe). They point out some opportunities to improve key problem areas like financing and workforce deployment. And they talk with nuclear experts, government financing officials, i...2023-11-031h 23
"Age of Miracles"The Untold History of Nuclear Energy“Nuclear fission is a miracle technology, and we've had it for 80 years. But we don't live in an energy abundant world. Because progress takes more than miracles.” Almost exactly 50 years ago, nuclear fission and large scale reactors were on track to deliver abundant, cheap energy to the globe. But instead, nuclear power declined even faster than it had scaled, becoming a pariah of the energy industry and relegated to a footnote. What actually happened? And how do we prevent it from happening again? From nuclear’s origins in small reactors for submarines and planes after W...2023-10-271h 00
"Age of Miracles"Let’s Get Nuke-PilledWelcome to the first episode of the first season of “Age of Miracles”. This new show from Packy McCormick, investor and writer of the Not Boring newsletter, asks the question: how do we create a future of abundance?This season, we’re exploring the future of energy – specifically, diving deep into nuclear energy, both fission and fusion. The world needs more energy, not less, argues Packy, and nuclear has been neglected as a clean, reliable source of energy for too long. Joining Packy as co-host this season is Julia DeWahl, who previously helped scale SpaceX’s...2023-10-2753 min
"Age of Miracles"Introducing: Age of MiraclesAge of Miracles is a narrative show that explores the complex industries that will play an important role in creating an abundant future for humanity. Episodes 1 and 2 drop October 27th.
Every season, host Packy McCormick – a venture investor and writer of the popular Not Boring newsletter – brings in an expert cohost to go deep into the possibilities and challenges of making “sci-fi” dreams our reality in our lifetimes. The first season starts at the root of all progress and prosperity: unlocking 10x more clean and reliable energy by splitting and fusing atoms themselves.
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"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Crusoe Energy (Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness)Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. It has pioneered infrastructure that taps into stranded energy — methane being flared or excess production from clean and renewable sources — to power the compute resources we need to drive our shared progress and reduce its environmental impact.
The company is building an AI-native cloud infrastructure from scratch, and doing so by colocating and powering its data centers with stranded energy from some of the harshest and most remote locations on earth.
Packy sat down Crusoe's CEO Chase Lochmiller and President Cull...2023-09-0757 min
"Media Empires" | The Business of Newsletters, Podcasts, Creators, and Data AcquisitionE2: "Not Boring and the Future of Tech Media" | Packy McCormick, Not BoringErik Torenberg sits down with Packy McCormick of the newsletter Not Boring and Not Boring Capital. For many, Packy is the epitome of the single creator-led media empire.Riverside.fm is a presenting sponsor of Media Empires. Go to https://creators.riverside.fm/MediaEmpires + use code MEDIAEMPIRES for 20% off individual plans.In this conversation, they discuss: how Packy evolved his content format, why a venture model is the business he wanted to build, and his plans for experimentation with Not Boring. They also analyze the opportunities for successful media businesses that should exist in the world.2023-06-1454 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Zach Marks, JiaZach Marks is the co-founder and CEO of Jia. Jia connects capital to small businesses in every corner of the world. Here's how Jia works: When business owners repay a loan, they drive value to lenders and the economy. They deserve to be compensated as owners of that economy. That’s why Jia rewards borrowers with an ownership stake in Jia’s long-term growth. Ownership leads to better borrower behavior, which benefits the entire ecosystem.
Packy and Zach discuss how blockchain can help align incentives in emerging market lending, Jia's launch, and in a smal...2023-05-1734 min
"Age of Miracles"Anton Teaches Packy AI | E6 | Stable AttributionPacky an Anton discuss Chroma's (Anton's company) launch of Stable Attribution.
Stable Attribution is a tool that let's anyone find the humans behind AI generated images. Given any image generated by Stable Diffusion, Stable Attribution is able to identify the images in the model's training set which most contributed to the generated image. Packy and Anton discuss the development of Stable Attribution, how to understand the data underlying these sophisticated AI models, and the implications of attribution for creators and artists.
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"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Sam Levin, MelonfrostSam Levin is the co-founder and CEO of Melonfrost. Melonfrost is using the power of evolution and machine learning to launch the next generation of microbes that will revolutionize the fields of therapeutics, biomaterials, food, and agriculture. You'll learn more about what exactly that means in this conversation between Packy and Sam.
Melonfrost, a Not Boring Capital portfolio company, recently announced its latest round of fundraising -- a $7M seed round led by Refactor Capital and Alexandria Venture Investments. Forbes did an awesome write up on the company and the round here. The company is one of th...2023-02-0248 min
"Age of Miracles"Four Seasons Total TechAudio Essay: Four Seasons Total Tech
Link to full essay: https://www.notboring.co/p/four-seasons-total-tech
Packy analogizes the Gartner Hype Cycle to the four seasons, to explain why some technology winters feel so long and cold while all summers feel pretty much the same. We're coming out of a many decades long winter for a bunch of frontier technology spaces (AI, Space, Nuclear, etc) seemingly all at once -- it's still spring, but Packy predicts that the we're about to enter a long, hot summer.
2022-12-0524 min
"Age of Miracles"Anton Teaches Packy AI | E3 | The First AI WinterPacky and Anton breakdown one of the early, foundational artifical intelligence papers, "A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity," which was first published in 1943. The researchers, Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts, were trying to understand how the brain could produce such complex patterns by using basic, connected cells. Their work was foundational in understanding neurons, and l introduced the concept of the neural network which has since become a key concept in artificial intelligence. This was the oldest paper that Anton and Packy have discussed, and its naturally age led to a lengthy conversation on...2022-12-051h 19
"Age of Miracles"Anton Teaches Packy AI | Ep 2 | ChinchillaWe're back! In Episode 2, Anton Teaches Packy about Deepmind's March 2022 paper, Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models, or as it's more commonly known, Chinchilla. Prior to Chinchilla, the best way to improve the performance of LLMs was thought to be by scaling up the size of the model. As a result, the largest models now have over 500 billion parameters. But there are only so many GPUs in the world, and throwing compute at the problem is expensive and energy intensive. In this paper, Deepmind found that the optimal way to scale an LLM is actually by scaling size (parameters) and t...2022-11-251h 02
"Age of Miracles"Anton Teaches Packy AI | E1Anton Teaches Packy AI is Not Boring's attempt at making AI more accessible to our audience. It's become increasingly obvious that we're in the Golden Age of AI, so we think it's important to demystify what's going on and how it all actually works.
Anton Troynikov is the founder of Chroma, former Meta Reality Labs Research Engineer and Roboticist.
Packy McCormick is the author of the popular tech and buinsess strategy newsletter, Not Boring.
Anton Teaches Packy AI is exactly what it sounds like -- each video, Anton breaks down AI to a lev...2022-11-071h 08
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Joe Connor, OdysseyOdyssey (formerly Agora) fully believes in the power of technology to provide families with opportunity to choose the educational environment and services that help them best meet their unique learning needs. In order to help parents do that, we have partnered with the best K-12 providers and vendors in order to create a robust marketplace for our families.
Joe Connor is the founder and CEO of Odyssey, and brings with him years of experience in education & law. Packy and Joe have been friends for 23 years, so it was especially special to have Joe come o...2022-11-0155 min
Non-Technical90. Packy McCormick (Founder, Not Boring) is the [NAME REDACTED] of Park SlopeThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Packy McCormick, Founder of Not Boring and advisor at a16z. They talk about Ballbasket, foot babies, Catholic guilt, NOT responding on Twitter, “who needs a mouth?,” Mr. Monopoly’s material assets, and that guy from that movie with the girl neighbor.You can find Packy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/packyM. You can find Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay, instagram.com/yayalexisgay, tiktok.com/@yayalexisgay or sign up for her email list at bit.ly/hellofromalexis.Find Non-Technical at twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod, instagram.com/nontechnicalpod, or tiktok.com/@n...2022-10-2643 min
Non-Technical90. Packy McCormick (Founder, Not Boring) is the [NAME REDACTED] of Park SlopeThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Packy McCormick, Founder of Not Boring and advisor at a16z. They talk about Ballbasket, foot babies, Catholic guilt, NOT responding on Twitter, “who needs a mouth?,” Mr. Monopoly’s material assets, and that guy from that movie with the girl neighbor.You can find Packy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/packyM. You can find Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay, instagram.com/yayalexisgay, tiktok.com/@yayalexisgay or sign up for her email list at bit.ly/hellofromalexis.Find Non-Technical at twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod, instagram.com/nontechnicalpod, or tiktok.com/@n...2022-10-2643 min
"World of DaaS"Packy McCormick: Web3 & Smart OptimismPacky McCormick is the founder and writer of Not Boring, a Web3 and startup newsletter. He’s also an investor at Not Boring Capital.Packy and Auren dive into the tech landscape on a generational scale and talk about the loss of tech optimism and what’s limiting technological progress today. They discuss how to evaluate early-stage companies as investments and Packy shares his insight on what he looks for in crypto and Web3 companies. World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/p...2022-10-2550 min
RiskReversal PodOkay, Computer 10/5/22: Elon Eats Bird & Conversations with Not Boring’s Packy McCormick and FirstMark Capital’s Rick HeitzmannDan talks with Not Boring Founder Packy McCormick about managing paternity leave after the birth of his second child (1:49), the volatile emotions fueling public markets (5:31), finding proper valuations for startups (7:55), Ethereum’s price slump after “The Merge” (12:44), Bitcoin’s struggles to prove its value (14:15), Elon Musk’s stunning announcement that he will buy Twitter after all (18:41), why Packy thinks the most exciting companies right now are in the private markets (27:17), and if big tech companies like Meta and Amazon have a path to get out of their slump (29:42). Later, Dan chats with FirstMark Capital’s Rick Heitzmann about his takeaways fr...2022-10-051h 09
"Age of Miracles"How Do I Teach These Kids?!In "How Do I Teach These Kids?!" Packy confronts the challenge of how to properly educate his two young children in a rapidly evolving world.
"Dev and Maya get a blank educational slate to start with. Puja and I are responsible for figuring out how to give them the best education possible, one that helps them love learning, have fun, and get prepared for life beyond school. I don’t think the answer is as simple as “Get them into the best schools possible.” I think it’s a lot more complicated than that, and will...2022-10-0328 min
"Age of Miracles"The Enchanted NotebookThe Enchanted Notebook: on the real and growing power of writing down the future you want to see exist. In the context of a recent Lex Fridman and Ray Kurzweil podcast conversation, Packy explores where we are with AI today and what the future may hold.
This essay and audio essay were sponsored by Secureframe. If you're starting a software company or getting up-to-speed on enterprise, schedule a demo with Secureframe.
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"Age of Miracles"Indistinguishable from MagicMonday Audio Essay: "Indistinguishable from Magic"
Packy explores "magic" in tech and how it impacts the startup lifecycle: "It’s the Magical Startup Circle of Life. A startup, if it’s lucky, creates magic, turns that magic into dollars, and transitions to life as a successful Big Muggle Company, capable of enormous profits and power but no longer able to conjure magic. Then a new Magician comes along, using sufficiently advanced technology to build something indistinguishable from magic, and uses that magic as a wedge to challenge the Big Muggle Company."
2022-09-1924 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Alok Tayi, Vibe BioAlok Tayi is the founder and CEO of Vibe Bio. Vibe Bio is a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding and developing promising treatments to rare diseases and empowering patient communities with unprecedented ownership over the process. Packy and Alok discuss how rare diseases can find cures, the biotech industry today, and why Vibe is built on web3 rails.
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Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF...2022-07-0144 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Henry Ward, CartaHenry Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Carta. Carta helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans. Packy previously described Henry as a "Worldbuilder" - an entrepreneur who can see something non-obvious about the future, timestamp their prediction, and then execute against that prediction (sometimes for over a decade) until they end of building something really, really important. They address the accuracy of that title, the current state of the market, N-of-1 markets, and much more.
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Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX U...2022-06-2237 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Will Manidis, ScienceIOWill Manidis is the co-founder and CEO of ScienceIO. ScienceIO's mission is to make all healthcare data computable. It's products enable real-time transformation of unstructured healthcare data into structured data that can be used for search & analysis. If Will and team are successful, he envisions a world in which healthcare is more connected, transparent and equitable. Packy and Will go deep on healthcare, company building, and a variety of tangentially related topics, including NLPs for biblical text, the supply chain crisis, and building companies that matter.
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"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Humberto Ayres PereiraHumberto Ayres Pereira is the co-founder and CEO of Rows. Rows is the spreadsheet with superpowers. With Rows, you can esily create and share powerful, interactive models with a passionate community of other spreadsheet users. It's taking on the likes of Microsoft & Google head on, and doing so by focusing on its interactivity and sharing functionality. In this conversation, Packy and Humberto discuss tactics for taking on incumbents, the power of spreadsheets, and startup culture in Portugal.
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Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX...2022-06-1047 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: SAFA + Valet Jones, Tally LabsTally Labs is a software-enabled web3 media business blurring the lines between community and creators. Packy is joined by its two pseudonymous founds, SAFA and Valet Jones. Tally Labs started as a media business built around the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT known as Jenkins the Valet -- and today the team is working on a book with Neil Strauss, a series of podcasts, and partnerships all built around that character. But one level up, Tally is a decentralized storytelling company and its building the necessary tools, like Writer's Room, to make that possible.
S...2022-06-0148 min
Not Boring by Packy McCormickNot Boring Founders Podcast: Amjad Masad, ReplitWelcome to the 596 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since Monday! If you haven’t subscribed, join 125,666 smart, curious folks by subscribing here:Hi friends 👋 , Happy Thursday! This really will be the shortest Not Boring in history. You have a Memorial Day Weekend to get to. But since odds are you’ll be in a car for a couple hours at some point in the next few days, I thought it would be the perfect time to listen to my favorite episode of Not Boring Founders yet. Not Boring Founders is...2022-05-261h 41
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Amjad Masad, ReplitAmjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit. Replit's mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. The company believes that the ability to write code should be as ubiquitous as the ability to write essays -- and it wants to be the first place that anyone writes a line of code.
In this wide-ranging, long-form conversation Amjad tells us of his roots in Jordan, how he first started making money with software, and why he think's there is still alpha in being authentic. His story is central to the story of Replit.
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"Age of Miracles"Designing Token EconomiesPacky and writing collaborator, Tina He, break down token design and why now is the perfect time for tinkerers to build new economies. The piece also explores how protocols are similar to corporations and nations, and where those analogies fall apart -- while suggesting a new framework for evaluating good token design.
This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks.
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"Age of Miracles"The Founder's Letter: Mackenzie Burnett, AmbrookIntroducing The Founder's Letter, a new series by Not Boring. Storytelling is core to Not Boring, but usually it's from Packy's perspective. With The Founder's Letter, founders tell their story directly to the audience, in their own words.
Mackenzie Burnett is the CEO and Cofounder of Ambrook. Ambrook creates finance software for farms, from bookkeeping, to spend cards, to capital -- all purpose built for farmers. Mackenzie shares the Ambrook story, in her own words.
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"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Alex Herrity, AnimaAlex Herrity is the co-founder of Anima. Anima is a augmented reality, NFT company blending the physical and digital worlds. Packy and Alex discuss the current state of the NFT market, building in a bear marketing, Anima's decades long vision, and what the company does today.
SponsorSeason 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...2022-05-1731 min
"Age of Miracles"Newton's AlchemyIsaac Newton's lifelong pursuit of alchemy may surprise you. Newton is the father of science and one of the most rational thinkers in history, but he also dedicated enormous amounts of time and energy to the now discredited field of alchemy. Yet, without alchemy we do not have chemistry. Many of the key problems and methods posed by alchemy would lead to the development of chemistry.
We see this repeatedly throughout history. Seemingly frivolous or unproductive experimentation ultimately leading to major breakthroughs.
Packy explores this historical trend in the...2022-05-1620 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Cartoon Avatars w/ Ben Thompson & Logan BartlettThis is episode is a cross-post from the podcast Cartoon Avatars, hosted by Logan Bartlett. Logan is joined by Packy and Ben Thompson of Stratechery. Packy, Ben, and Logan talk about their respective businesses and experiences on the internet, and give advice for other content creators. Packy and Logan have been friends for nearly 15 years. And both Packy and Logan have been reading Ben Thompson for nearly a decade. In fact, Stratechery, and Ben's work generally, was the initial inspiration for Not Boring.
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"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Gabby Dizon, Yield GuildGabby Dizon is the co-founder of Yield Guild Gaming (YGG). On its website, it says YGG is a play-to-earn gaming guild, bringing players together to earn via blockchain based economies. That description is starting to expand - YGG is quickly becoming the infrastructure for x-to-earn DAOs. Packy and Gabby discuss the future of ownership, earning, and work and how the the x-to-earn model can shape the world in the next decade.
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Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US.
You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives...2022-05-0334 min
"Age of Miracles"Tokengated CommercePacky is joined by Alex Danco of Shopify's Blockchain team to discuss "Tokengated Commerce." Alex breaks down what it means to make Shopify "wallet-aware," answers why this type of commerce needs blockchains, and paints a picture of what web3 commerce might look like in the future.
This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks.
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"Age of Miracles"The Invisible Hand's Visible SwarmWhen Adam Smith began writing about an invisible hand, a metaphor for the market’s self-correcting mechanisms, in 1759, the world was very local, and information moved at a more leisurely pace. Today, though, information zips around the world instantly, the talent pool is becoming more liquid and global, venture capital has more money to deploy than ever before, and the scope of the world’s ambitions are getting bigger. Ideally, all of this combines into one big matching engine that puts the right people and capital to the right problems.
How does the swarm know what to atta...2022-04-1926 min
"Age of Miracles"The Not Boring Liquid Super TeamNot Boring just turned two years old. Packy reflects on the last two years of Not Boring and looks to the year ahead.
Each of the first two years of Not Boring had a defining "thing."
Year 1: Grow the newsletter and survive
Year 2: Not Boring Capital
For Year 3, Not Boring is building a Liquid Super Team. Packy discusses why he was originally hesitant to build a team, what has changed, and what the new team will be focused on. Plus, Packy shares a redacted version of the Not Boring Capital Q1 2022...2022-04-1123 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Mariam Hakobyan, SoftrMariam Hakobyan is the co-founber and CEO of Softr. Softr is an easy-to-use no-code platform to build powerful websites, web-apps and client portals from Airtable, in 10 minutes. With Softr, non-technical users can easily build web-apps that previously would’ve required engineering resources.
Softr is riding the No-Code wave, and in this discussion Packy and Mariam discuss the progress of No-Code, how it will transform the ways in which we work, and why Softr is well positioned to become a leading player within the industry.
Mariam also shares how Softr won Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty Awar...2022-04-0833 min
Bankless112 - Into the Funtier | Packy McCormickPacky McCormick is the writer of Not Boring, an investor at Not Boring Capital, and an advisor to the a16z Web3 Fund. Packy has a sharp intuition for general trends, and he puts in the work to understand and thoughtfully communicate his findings outward. Writing and creating content is a great way to learn and share knowledge—we would know. In this episode, we explore five of Packy’s most salient articles orbiting around the crypto space. Unraveling the secret recipe for crypto (and life), managing the delicate balance between money and fun is the key to w...2022-04-041h 27
Bankless112 - Into the Funtier | Packy McCormickPacky McCormick is the writer of Not Boring, an investor at Not Boring Capital, and an advisor to the a16z Web3 Fund. Packy has a sharp intuition for general trends, and he puts in the work to understand and thoughtfully communicate his findings outward. Writing and creating content is a great way to learn and share knowledge—we would know. In this episode, we explore five of Packy’s most salient articles orbiting around the crypto space. Unraveling the secret recipe for crypto (and life), managing the delicate balance between money and fun is the key to w...2022-04-041h 27
"Age of Miracles"Kaeya Majmundar, Swaypay (S2E5)Kaeya Majumunday is the founder and CEO of Swaypay. Swaypay is a platform that allows customers to get cashback for posts on TikTok. Customers earn cashback for posting about their recent purchases and brands can get free content and distribution from authentic brand ambassadors.
Kaeya and Packy discuss Swaypay’s recent copycats and why she takes it as a strong signal of success for her company. Kaeya has been working on different iterations for Swaypay for over 10 years, after she launched her first company on Sharktank at the age of 19. Since then, she’s obsessed over the idea...2022-03-2932 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Alice Albrecht, re:collectAlice Albrecht is the founder and CEO of re:collect. re:collect is focused on augmenting human memory and creativity. The product tracks what you're reading and ingests other content information (like notes, highlights, ect) and hands you "thought building-blocks" in the moment of creation. They are building an automatic bridge between you, your digital knowledge, and your ideas.
But re:collect is not your standard "productivity app," in fact, Alice breaks down why most productivity apps fail and why her product may be different. Packy and Alice discuss how re:collect is really o...2022-03-2537 min
Tangled WebWhy I’m adopting Packy McCormick’s Not Boring podcast stylePacky McCormick takes a simple approach to podcasting.On most episodes of his Not Boring podcast, about web3 and startup strategy, he simply reads his latest newsletter.This works for me as a listener. I don’t have much time to read. I do have time to listen: while I’m driving, while I’m doing the dishes, while I’m working out.Simply by reading what he’s written, Packy widens his audience to include me and countless other podcast-first people.But a wider audience isn’t the only reason I’ve adopted...2022-03-2204 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Ben Rollert, ComposerBen Rollert is the co-founder and CEO of Composer. Composed is an automated trading platform that allows users to build hedge-fund like strategies with a no-code visual editor. Ben and Packy first met while working together at Breather over 6 years ago, where Ben established himself as "the smartest person Packy has ever met."
Composer aims to bring modern software thinking to asset management -- users can create, remix, and share their investing strategies. Ben believes the lines between retail and institutional investors are going to continue to blur, as companies like Composer democratize access to sophisticated tools...2022-03-2247 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Rushir Parikh, PopchewRushir Parikh is the co-founder and CEO of Popchew. Popchew is a platform that allows creators to build their own restaurant brands at a national scale. When Packy first met Rushir, he passed on investing -- in this conversation, Packy explains how he (thankfully) was able to invest later on and Rushir lays out the massive vision that Packy missed the first time around.
Popchew has three main stakeholders: creators, consumers, and operators. Rushir explains how Popchew gives creators a new way to connect with their audiences, consumers a more fun way of eating, and operators additional v...2022-03-1830 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Vance Roush, OverflowVance Roush is the founder of Overflow. Overflow builds infrastructure that makes generosity frictionless across every major asset class. The inspiration for Overflow came from Vance's other calling -- he's the founder of Vive Church, an Bay Area based church that now has over 4,000 members across 10 locations.
As Treasure of Vive, Vance realized that the church's tech-focused congregation had no easy way to donate non-cash assets--like stock--to the church. He also knew that non-cash donations were the most advantageous from a tax perspective. So he built Overflow. Overflow makes it easy to donate non-cash assets to nonprofits an...2022-03-1534 min
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managersNot Boring's Packy McCormick on VC's building brand through content creation, tech trends he's most excited about, and how writing has helped him with investing.Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.This week I’m delighted to bring you my conversation with Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring, a biweekly newsletter that now has over 100K subscribers and covers tech, strategy, finance, economics, and everything in between. In July 2021, Packy launched the Not Boring Capital which closed at just under $10MM and has invested in over 50 companies. Packy also started the Not Boring Club, a social and “extracurricular” community for like-minded individuals, and he also...2022-03-0152 min
The Altogether Show with Eric SatzPacky McCormick on Spotting and Explaining Future TrendsIt’s hard to imagine moving on from a self-described $2B mistake, let alone maintaining a positive attitude about it, and yet that’s exactly what this week’s guest did. In this episode, you’ll hear Packy McCormick talk about the winding path that led him to create Not Boring and why over the long run, he believes optimism is the best return strategy. Packy’s resilience and work ethic started early, including with a formative experience bringing home a C+ in French. He grew up in a family that valued hard work and honoring commitments without being too hard-c...2022-02-0948 min
This Week in StartupsPacky McCormick’s Not Boring parlay: Angel S6 E3 + Producer Rachel visits Miami Hack Week | E1372Today’s guest is Packy McCormick of Not Boring, for Episode 3 of Season 6 of Angel. Packy turned his massive newsletter into a Not Boring Fund I in 2021, and has since invested $10M into startups. In this episode you will learn:
1. How Packy raised his first fund from his readers.
2. What regulations he needed to navigate to comply with the SEC.
3. Which sectors he invested his first $10M into (in just 6 months) and some of his breakout startups.
4. Why IRR can be hilariously large in the early stages of a small fund.
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This Week in Startups - VideoPacky McCormick’s Not Boring parlay: Angel S6 E3 + Producer Rachel visits Miami Hack Week | E1372Today’s guest is Packy McCormick of Not Boring, for Episode 3 of Season 6 of Angel. Packy turned his massive newsletter into a Not Boring Fund I in 2021, and has since invested $10M into startups. In this episode you will learn:
1. How Packy raised his first fund from his readers.
2. What regulations he needed to navigate to comply with the SEC.
3. Which sectors he invested his first $10M into (in just 6 months) and some of his breakout startups.
4. Why IRR can be hilariously large in the early stages of a small fund.
5. How he manages a syndicate and a venture fund while s...2022-01-291h 02RiskReversal PodBonus Episode: A Shallow Dive into Packy McCormick’s Deep Dive on RivianWelcome to a bonus episode of “On The Tape,” brought to you by SoFi. This week, Dan Nathan interviews Packy McCormick, author of the Not Boring Newsletter, about his deep dive on electric automaker Rivian, who is about to make its public debut at a valuation of as much as $65 billion. Read Packy’s deep dive: Rivian: The Most Remarkable Adventure----See what adding futures can do for you at cmegroup.com/onthetape. ----Shoot us an email...2021-11-0839 min
"Age of Miracles"Discord: Imagine a Place...Imagine a place...
Built for gamers
Home to everyone playing the Great Online Game
Has 150 million MAUs
Generates $130 million in revenue
Is a web3 sleeper
This week, I teamed up with Mario Gabriele of The Generalist to tell Discord's story. You can read the full piece here.
We cover:
The circular origin story. Discord’s lore involves more headfakes and false starts than almost any other business.
A dizzying product. Discord can be hard to understand, especially for aged millennials like Packy and me. We do our best to dissect the chaos of Discord’s chat.
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Building At The EdgesEp 3 - The Importance of Vibes - Packy McCormickPacky McCormick is our guest today. The author of the not-boring newsletter and investing from the not-boring fund. Packy is an excellent conversationalist. This conversation allowed us to get into all sorts of things. We talk about his journey into starting the not-boring newsletter at the beginning of the pandemic. We get into fun stuff like the importance of vibes when beginning a project. We spend some time talking about the most impactful popular issues he has written, such as "the great online game," and we end our conversation talking about liquid superteams and the future of work. 2021-10-1457 min
ValidatedPacky McCormick - Founder of Not Boring Ep #49Packy McCormick is the author of the tech/web3 newsletter Not Boring and runs Not Boring Capital.00:09 - Intro01:34 - What are people building in the world of crypto / What does ‘Not Boring’ invest in09:36 - Ownership in Crypto16:00 - Conversation around Play-to-earn19:06 - The regulatory aspect22:14- How does Anatoly balance his time23:54 - Thoughts on DAOs29:33 - Network Effect and defensibility in Crypto32:18 - Centralizing in Crypto35:20 - Solana in relation to DeFi, the cultural and the meta...2021-10-1244 min
"Age of Miracles"Not Boring Founders: Reed McGinley-Stempel & Julianna Lamb, StytchGoing from 0 to 1 -- taking your company from idea to real live working product with customers -- is hard.
In this special edition of Not Boring Founders, Packy and Thrive Capital's Gaurav Ahuja sit down with Stytch co-founders Reed McGinley-Stempel and Julianna Lamb to discuss how they've done it. In the past 18 months, they left their jobs at Plaid and Very Good Security, raised money from Benchmark, Thrive, and other top funds, hired an all-star team, built a passwordless authentication API and SDK, and sold to their first wave of customers.
We cover:
How to...2021-09-2456 min
Infinite LoopsPacky McCormick — The Great Online GameIn this episode of Infinite Loops, we speak with Packy McCormick, author of the Not Boring newsletter. We discuss many aspects of the Great Reshuffle like: UBI with crypto Designing new money How to increase crypto adoption Will NFTs go mainstream? Future of work and workspaces And MUCH more! Follow Packy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/packyM and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.notboring.co/2021-09-021h 05This Week in Startups - VideoHeadSpin accused of $80M fraud, housing startup irks NIMBYs + Not Boring’s Packy McCormick | E1272In the news segment, Jason covers unicorn SaaS Startup called HeadSpin has been accused of a massive fraud by the SEC and DOJ (2:06), and Pacaso real estate startup offering fractional ownership of vacation homes is causing outrage in wine country (17:35). Then, Jason interviews Not Boring's Packy McCormick (34:41), about his time at WeWork competitor Breather (36:14), turning his newsletter into a venture fund (59:12), and Packy's vision for crypto - it's one of the best explanations we've heard (1:03:17).2021-08-271h 15
"Age of Miracles"Pinduoduo: Together, More Bull, More Bear, More FunPinduoduo is the fastest company in history to reach both $5 billion in revenue and a $100 billion market cap. The Chinese ecommerce platform, famous for popularizing the team buying and consumer-to-manufacturer (C2M) model, was the talk of the town last summer, and it's had an even more fascinating intervening 12 months. I teamed up with Lillian Li of Chinese Characteristics to go deep, and give the bull and bear cases, including:
A Brief History of Pinduoduo
What Does Pinduoduo Do?
Can PDD’s Model Work in the West?
Recent Developments: Leadership, Grocery, Agriculture, and Payments
The PDD Bull Case...2021-07-2657 minRiskReversal PodThe Irishman with Packy McCormick of Not BoringGuy, Dan and Danny discuss warning signs in the market (1:32), earnings season kicking off (11:06), and China’s tech crackdown (21:17). The co-hosts interview Packy McCormick (27:30), writer & creator of the Not Boring newsletter and talk about his take on technology stocks (31:04), the next trillion dollar company (38:14), why Packy loves twitter (43:40), the dangers with Robinhood (51:43) and ethereum vs. bitcoin (58:27).The Not Boring posts referenced in this podcast are:
The Great Online Game
Own the Internet
Dreams All The Way Up
----See what adding futures can do for you at cmeg...2021-07-091h 05
Finding Genius SeriesPacky McCormick of Not BoringPacky McCormick is the founder of Not Boring, a newsletter that has attracted over 30,000 subscribers for its weekly deep-dives into small and large tech companies. Packy discusses the newsletter + influencer economy, syndicating investments through Angellist, and the companies he is most excited about. 2021-06-2724 min
Not Investment Advice8: Packy McCormick - Ethereum Deep Dive, El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin + Volcano EnergyJack Butcher, Bilal Zaidi & Trung Phan are joined by Packy McCormick for a deep dive into Ethereum.Every week on Not Investment Advice, we discuss what we're finding on the edges of the internet + the latest in business, tech and memes.Watch + Subscribe on YouTube:https://youtu.be/bfTKEyCpp00Let us know what you think on Twitter:@bzaidi@trungtphan@jackbutcher@niadesk@packyMPacky's Posts Discussed:https://www.notboring.co/p/own-the-internet...2021-06-1754 min
The NFX PodcastThe Founders' List: The Great Online Game by Packy McCormickIn this episode, Packy McCormick shares his insights into crypto's role in the online game, its intersection with the creator economy, and the potential of DAOs. The discussion also delves into game design principles, their application to the online game, and personal experiences in the meta game.
The Great Online Game is an infinite video game that plays out constantly across the internet. It uses many of the mechanics of a video game, but removes the boundaries. You’re no longer playing as an avatar in Fortnite or Roblox; you’re playing as yourself across Twitter, YouTube, Discords, work, proj...2021-05-2120 min
"Age of Miracles"A Not Boring Conversation with Clint KiskerWhen Packy auctioned off his Power to the Person essay as an NFT that split proceeds with the people whose work Packy cited, Clint won the auction with a 2.19 ETH bid. We had to talk about it, and I'm glad we did. We covered:
The psychology of NFT buying
The future of media and entertainment
How Clint sees Web3 and crypto changing the relationship creators have with their audiences
And so much more...
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Not Boring by Packy McCormickWe Good Now? (Audio)Welcome to the 997 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you aren’t subscribed, join 41,668 smart, curious folks by subscribing here:🎧 To get this essay straight in your ears: listen on Spotify or Apple PodcastsToday’s Not Boring is brought to you by… MasterworksLast week, you might have heard that the art market went—as they say in b-school—absolutely bonkers, setting a nice new record of $69 million for a nifty digital artwork. The takeaway? Art investing has hit the mainstream. But perhaps putting your money in physical art by th...2021-03-2941 min
"Age of Miracles"Excel Never DiesExcel may be the most influential software ever built. If you want to see the future of B2B software, look at what Excel users are hacking together in spreadsheets today.
Excel’s success has inspired the creation of software whose combined enterprise value dwarfs that of Excel alone. There are two main ways Excel has set the broad roadmap for the B2B software industry for decades, and will continue to for years to come:
The Unbundling of Excel. Hundreds of B2B startups have been built by taking a job currently being done in Ex...2021-03-0836 min
Nathan Barry Archive028: Packy McCormick - How Much Are 30,000 Subscribers Worth?Packy McCormick writes the popular newsletter Not Boring, which is all about strategy and investing, from big companies to small. Packy was the VP of experience at a company called Breather, but when he left that role to start another startup he ended up creating a blockbuster newsletter instead! Not Boring has grown to over 30,000 subscribers.Packy’s newsletter is generating fantastic revenue, and his business model is a little different from the paid subscriptions that are popular right now. He dives into all the specifics. If you’re curious just how much you can make from a 30...2021-03-0859 min
Not Boring by Packy McCormickBeacons (Audio)Welcome to the 1,176 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Thursday! If you aren’t subscribed, join 34,947 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: 🎧 To get this investment memo in your ears: listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.Today’s Not Boring is brought to you by… AmplitudeAmplitude is the leading product analytics software. It uses customer data to help over 40,000 digital teams at companies like Instacart, Microsoft, Adidas, and PayPal build great product experiences for sustainable growth.Now, I know that all of you are smart, and Amplitude...2021-02-2521 min
"Age of Miracles"Interview with Florent Crivello, Founder of TeamflowFlorent Crivello is the Founder and CEO of Teamflow, a virtual office startup that came out of stealth and announced a $3.9 million seed round led by some of the world's best early stage investors.
Flo and Packy discuss how a late night at Uber sparked the idea for Teamflow, hiring world-class engineers and designers, the intersection of strategy and execution, and how Teamflow is like the best parts of Slack and Zoom.
To sign up for Teamflow and move up the waitlist, join here: Sign Up for Teamflow
Read the full investment memo at...2021-01-1340 min
Value Hive PodcastEmerging Technology, Writing and Process w/ Packy McCormick (Ep. 55)This episode is brought to you by TIKR. Join the free beta today at TIKR.com/hive. They're constantly releasing new updates that make the platform better including a new Business Owner Mode that hides share count, market cap and enterprise value. I couldn't be more excited to partner with TIKR.
Packy McCormick is the founder and creator of The Not Boring Newsletter and Not Boring Syndicate. What started as a COVID side-hustle quickly spiraled into a full-time job and never-ending passion. After graduating from Duke, Packy went to work as an investment banking associate at Bank...2020-12-111h 11
AcquiredSlack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not BoringAcquired is live on the scene covering Salesforce's blockbuster $27.7B acquisition of Slack, with the help of the internet's #1 Slack bull (and top internet analyst in his own right), Packy McCormick of Not Boring. We dissect the deal itself, Slack's relatively short life as a public company, the impact of Microsoft and Teams, and most importantly what this means for enterprise SaaS startups broadly. And oh yeah — we have a ton of fun too. :)Note: you can find our full June 2019 episode on Slack's history and their DPO here: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-slack-dpo2020-12-021h 30
A Media OperatorPacky McCormick on Building Not BoringPacky McCormick is the writer and creator of the business strategy newsletter, Not Boring. Although he has only been doing this full time since April, it has quickly morphed into a project with a loyal audience and an advertising-driven business model that bucks the trend of many of the newsletters launching today.We discussed a lot about what goes into building these solo products, but a few things jumped out to me...On building a referral systemThe referral system in newsletters has become a favorite way to grow audiences; however, for Substack...2020-10-2842 min
Mastering the Attention EconomyHow Packy McCormick Grew His Newsletter to Over 6,000 Subscribers [Ep. 20]This is an episode of Mastering the Attention Economy Podcast with host Ari Lewis and Packy McCormick. Packy is the co-founder of the Not Boring Newsletter, a newsletter focused on the intersection of business strategy and pop culture.
We discuss why not boring started an email referral program, why Packy chose Substack, why not boring is different than other business strategy newsletters, and how to capture attention by writing a newsletter.
Follow Packy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/packym?lang=en Subscribe to Not Boring: https://notboring.substack.com/
Follow Ari...2020-07-2220 min
Not Boring by Packy McCormickMonopolies and Magnolias (Audio Edition)If you’re listening to this and haven’t subscribed to Not Boring, join 5,492 smart, curious, business-savvy readers by entering your e-mail address below:Hi friends 👋🏻,I hope you enjoy the audio edition of Monopolies and Magnolias! ✍️ If you’d like to read or share the original essay, you can find it here: Monopolies & Magnolias Below, I’ve included the graphics from the episode so that you can follow along. I’ll point out in the audio when there’s something to look at.If you enjoy what you’re hearing, please share N...2020-07-0213 min
Not Boring by Packy McCormickThe Will Ferrell Effect (Audio Edition)If you’re listening to this and haven’t subscribed to Not Boring, join 5,200+ smart, curious, business-savvy readers by entering your e-mail address below:Hi friends 👋🏻,I hope you enjoy the audio edition of The Will Ferrell Effect!✍️ If you’d like to read or share the original essay, you can find it here: The Will Ferrell EffectBelow, I’ve included the graphics from the episode so that you can follow along. I’ll point out in the audio when there’s something to look at.And if you enjoy what you’re he...2020-06-2923 min
The Joseph Wells PodcastPacky McCormick: Conjuring SceniusMy guest today is Packy McCormick. Packy is a resident of Brooklyn, New York and my peer in the Write of Passage Fellowship. He is also the found of the Not Boring Club - a roaming social club for people who never stop learning. In this episode, Packy and I go behind the scenes on the Write of Passage fellowship, we discuss scenius - the topic of Packy's essay - the magic of Twitter, and much more. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.2020-05-2856 min
The Joseph Wells PodcastPacky McCormick: Conjuring SceniusMy guest today is Packy McCormick. Packy is a resident of Brooklyn, New York and my peer in the Write of Passage Fellowship. He is also the found of the Not Boring Club - a roaming social club for people who never stop learning. In this episode, Packy and I go behind the scenes on the Write of Passage fellowship, we discuss scenius - the topic of Packy's essay - the magic of Twitter, and much more. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.2020-05-2856 min