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Published podcast speaker
Books, apps, and tools
book / uses
“We read a bunch of Ben Thompson and we read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and we're like, we're going to turn this company around using strategy. So we wrote this detailed memo full of his data science and my crazy ideas on how we can actually turn the company around by adding monthly space and competing more at the margins with companies like WeWork and Knotel.”
app / likes
“What I love Not Boring to be a big and lasting thing that builds actual products and does things that outlive me, 100% I would love that.”
Claim ledger
27 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I think one of the most important things about 2020 and 2021 for a lot of people was learning about themselves.”
02 / belief
“If any of you want a piece of the Twitter take private, $43 or $44 million minimum check. I think actually they are taking relatively small checks from what I've seen.”
03 / belief
“I think that all helps because, we'll get to Breather, that was my first year’s experience.”
04 / belief
“I think 8 out of 10 DAOs might totally fail because they have that leadership issue or who is the final decision maker issue.”
05 / belief
“I think that is the obvious one and the one that I don't have a solution to because I've said on the other side that if I have other people writing, maybe people don't want to come to Not Boring to read X, Y, and Z other person.”
06 / belief
“Someone I think signed up with Satya Nadella's email address, but it certainly wasn't him, and that email address has never opened an email.”
07 / belief
“When you think about the future, tech, and AI is stealing everyone's job, maybe that happens at some point in the future. But I think the really great thing is people are pulling resources in the right place and then you can access them at the time they make sense.”
08 / belief
“I have a few pieces coming up. So I think, chances are, we're going to just cross a million dollars in 2021.”
09 / belief
“I'm not solely alone here, but I also can't be like, all right, Dan and Puja, you write the next Not Boring while I think about building this organization.”
10 / belief
“Definitely, I think probably because of Not Boring Club I shied away from trying to be a community manager again.”
11 / belief
“I didn't have a future job lined up, but I was interviewing, trading, and making a bunch of dumb decisions that I think would make me a better investor later on.”
12 / belief
“I've always been honest that I'm going to follow whatever I think is the most interesting. It makes my schedule miserable because I pick each week what I want to write about based on what I think the most interesting thing happening is.”
13 / belief
“I think for Acquired, for Not Boring, for good content businesses, this is why I don't want to scale it and have to write a brand guideline or the style guide.”
14 / belief
“I had a 150-person team that I think I got along really well with. So I think the sabbatical is also useful in being like, look, Packy is away in Japan right now, the company hasn't fallen apart, and your life is not miserable.”
15 / belief
“Exactly, and I think part of that is probably what became Uber Eats. Ultimately, these people are moving around the city on their bikes.”
16 / belief
“Our ideas in our podcast, I think, are a testament to the fact that I get things wrong all the time.”
17 / belief
“Not Boring is still, I think, even if there's a two-year bear market, we come out the other side, reload, continue to grow, things continue to get better, and all of that.”
18 / belief
“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.”
19 / belief
“I think the acquisition is interesting because, as you guys pointed out, it gives Slack this massive professional Salesforce to go push their product into all the [...”
20 / belief
“I think shared channels have become a part of Slack Connect and that's what Slack Connect is.”
21 / belief
“I think the F for me is trying to integrate Slack and Salesforce the products and failing and turning Slack more into Salesforce than Salesforce more into Slack.”
22 / belief
“Slack, as we'll discuss I’m sure, just reported earnings and the numbers look good, yet again. It's one of these companies that has been underappreciated but I think over time is going to build into a juggernaut.”
23 / belief
“Next year, this is a billion-dollar run rate company with 86% gross margins that just became free cash flow positive and grew from $10 million (I think) to $36 million in free cash flow this quarter.”
24 / belief
“I'm sick of this. The real reason that kind of suffers is that I think that Teams’ bear case.”
25 / belief
“To Slack's great benefit, you're just counting this tiny, tiny, tiny discount rate and yet it's not being reflected in the stock price if they're not taking that long-term view that I think you can't be any better than a C for me, unfortunately.”
26 / belief
“I think that's right, but I do think for this next generation, companies like Huddle are going to come out and combine the best of Discord with all of the below-the-surface-level features of Slack.”
27 / belief
“I think mine is somewhere similar and it just revolves a little bit more around Slack Connect really being what they think it's going to be and not just creating the social network at the horizontal layer but also making being the target in Salesforce a better experience, humanizing the whole sales process a little bit versus getting hit with some awful drip campaign.”