Packy McCormick: belief

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…From our banking days, we know you're always couriering documents around. Exactly, and I think part of that is probably what became Uber Eats. Ultimately, these people are moving around the city on their bikes. But we had a slider in the Uber app where I would call. Hopefully, there was somebody nearby. I would hit the button, I would drop the pin on the space, hit the button, and then have to text with that person and be like, hey, by the way, this isn't a delivery job, you're cleaning a space. To be fair, these people opted in. So we had our own viewer. It's all only people who opted in and they made a little bit more by doing that. But I'd be like, all right, so this particular space, you go into the room, there's a set of cleaning supplies under the couch, there are instructions there. If you have any questions, just text me, this is my number. 00 AM to 11:00 PM pretty much when we closed, I was just on my phone texting messengers who were going to go clean Breather. So talking about startups not being glamorous, there was absolutely nothing glamorous about this. The fun part on the flip side of that was, I had equity in the company. I was our only US employee. I designed the system myself. I chose to work with Uber. So it's all on me. The fun thing about startups is it's all on you. All the crappy stuff is a product of the way that you designed the system. That was a really fun experience. Then I hired a team, signed a bunch of leases, got promoted a couple of times, and ultimately ended up running our operations in real estate and design, which doesn't make any sense, but managed a really talented design team. A bunch of stuff that our COO didn't want to do, I did all of that kind of globally for us. Such an incredible experience at Breather, but none of it was particularly easy.…

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