Evidence receipt / recommendation
Published · transcript-backedPacky McCormick: recommendation
3 Dec 2021 Acquired Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
“I wrote a bunch and you can see these essays too, trying to justify how this could be a venture scale thing if you added a bunch of stuff on top and started community first.”
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- Speaker
- Packy McCormick
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 3 Dec 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Of course, you're coming from a physical real estate company that you just spent six years at. That was part of the thing too. I just thought that if I tried to build a software business, I'd have a lot less credibility even with investors than if I said, look, I know how to do all of this. Here's the model, all the numbers work. I wrote a bunch and you can see these essays too, trying to justify how this could be a venture scale thing if you added a bunch of stuff on top and started community first. Maybe that would have worked. I don't know. Today, what Not Boring Club would have been is really a DAO probably with physical locations. I think, actually, that model works really well for what I was trying to do. At the time, it was a real stretch. Did you pitch any VCs or investors about investing in Not Boring Club as it was coming together at the end of 2019?…
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