Packy McCormick: belief

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…I think he works at Levels now. Yeah, exactly. He's a Supersapiens competitor, Levels now. That was one. Our other co-founder, Caterina, was a designer by background. She was like, go to a Marriott business lobby, go to the Ace Hotel lobby, and then make a presentation on why they're different. They're obviously very different, but I'm not a designer, as everybody who reads Not Boring knows. I had this whole thing about the vibe of both of the spaces. It wasn't particularly good, but the fact that I did it is probably what they wanted to see. I learned later that it came down to me and somebody who ended up working for the company later who's way more talented and smarter than I am. Julien and Caterina went point by point on both of us in the lobby, actually, of Ace Hotel the night before they made the decision. I won by one point and got the job, or else I would have had four months down the drain and absolutely nothing. So I ended up getting the job. What Breather did was it rented out meeting and workspace, in the beginning, these very small meeting rooms for as little as half an hour at a time. My job was twofold. My job was first, to convince landlords to rent spaces to this random Canadian company that wants random people to come in and out of the building for half an hour at a time throughout the day. So that was challenge number one. I literally got on my knees. In one case, literally, I got on my knees and begged one of the landlords to give us the space. They ended up giving us the space because Julien told me I was going to get fired if I couldn't get three spaces by X date. And you're probably competing against WeWork for a lot of these leases, right?…

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