Packy McCormick: recommendation

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…Oh my god. If any of these people had actually invested in Not Boring, like, wow. I know. I might have shut that one down and started fresh. It was more of, I think, we’ll back you this idea of maybe you can do something with it if it gets interesting at some point, but we’ll back you. But I got a bunch of advice from a bunch of other people who were like, don't raise money and don't sign a lease. Please, for the love of God, don't sign a lease before you actually try to build a community because it sounds like the other stuff is hard, but what's really hard is actually building a community around this kind of stuff. So I started a Slack group. I used the newsletter that had 400 people at that time to try to get their early applicants. We got the community up and running. We were doing some book clubs. We did Debate Club. There were about 150 of the first people. Before we had a club to welcome people in, I was like, great. We're going to do a bunch of small group dinners starting in February of 2020. Late February, we had our first four 10-person group dinners. It was a lot of fun. People were really enjoying getting to know each other. Then I think it was March 10th, we had these separate Slack groups for each one of the dinner groups. Somebody was like, you know what, I'm not feeling particularly good. I'm going to just bow out tonight. Other people were like, you know what, I'm going to bow out tonight too because I'm hearing a lot about this COVID thing. So I was trying to start Not Boring Club in the middle of this COVID thing. We put it on pause and canceled that dinner. Out of an abundance of caution, I canceled the next night's dinner and the next night. So I was like, guys, we'll be back in two weeks here. Do you remember that? We're all going to be back in two weeks.…

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