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Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

3 Dec 2021 51 published claims 3 attributable people
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Packy McCormickBen GilbertDavid Rosenthal

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belief 30commitment 7evaluation 5recommendation 4uncertainty 3preference 2

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03 / commitment

I think what I will hopefully continue to do well at is looking into the very near future, never being the earliest person on something, but being the person who can say, all right, this is actually probably worth taking a look at now, and here's actually why it's not as wild as it seems, or why this is wild as it seems but it just might work.

“I think what I will hopefully continue to do well at is looking into the very near future, never being the earliest person on something, but being the person who can say, all right, this is actually probably worth taking a look at now, and here's actually why it's not as wild as it seems, or why this is wild as it seems but it just might work.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

08 / 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.

“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.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

12 / 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.

“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.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

14 / belief

I think the realization that with such a smart, valuable, audience that attention is the scarce resource, I think that part of us realizing, oh, we should change the way that the Limited Partner program works and really make it just the limited partner community with some early exclusive access to this content.

“I think the realization that with such a smart, valuable, audience that attention is the scarce resource, I think that part of us realizing, oh, we should change the way that the Limited Partner program works and really make it just the limited partner community with some early exclusive access to this content.”
Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Publisher
Acquired

15 / commitment

The kind of things that maybe before you would have gotten out of a partnership at a firm and certainly right now you get out of a partnership at a firm. It's not as formal, and I will still make more mistakes than probably a firm will make, at least on saying yes to things that maybe I shouldn't say yes to.

“The kind of things that maybe before you would have gotten out of a partnership at a firm and certainly right now you get out of a partnership at a firm. It's not as formal, and I will still make more mistakes than probably a firm will make, at least on saying yes to things that maybe I shouldn't say yes to.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

18 / belief

I hadn't thought about this before going through the whole episode. But I think there's a strong element of counter positioning here with what you're doing, at least relative to traditional media companies.

“I hadn't thought about this before going through the whole episode. But I think there's a strong element of counter positioning here with what you're doing, at least relative to traditional media companies.”
Speaker
David Rosenthal
Publisher
Acquired

19 / belief

Before we move on, I want to cover one final topic of journalistic integrity. Because David, I think your take may come across when we go back and listen to this as a little bit too—and this is when the downfall of democracy started.

“Before we move on, I want to cover one final topic of journalistic integrity. Because David, I think your take may come across when we go back and listen to this as a little bit too—and this is when the downfall of democracy started.”
Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Publisher
Acquired

27 / 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.

“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.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

28 / commitment

We're going to do the whole Acquired treatment on you Packy. But the first place I went where I was like, all right, I will start researching, build the script here for the Not Boring story, I went to your LinkedIn.

“We're going to do the whole Acquired treatment on you Packy. But the first place I went where I was like, all right, I will start researching, build the script here for the Not Boring story, I went to your LinkedIn.”
Speaker
David Rosenthal
Publisher
Acquired

31 / 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.

“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.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

32 / evaluation

Even figuring out how to price the round, figuring out what should go into the term sheet, spending time negotiating that, and then being on a board, God forbid. It actually just doesn't work with my strategy because it is a house of cards already, where you move one thing and the whole thing breaks.

“Even figuring out how to price the round, figuring out what should go into the term sheet, spending time negotiating that, and then being on a board, God forbid. It actually just doesn't work with my strategy because it is a house of cards already, where you move one thing and the whole thing breaks.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

44 / commitment

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

45 / preference

What's really interesting is there are actually companies that I’ll say no to that I would invest in, that I think are great businesses, and I think to have something interesting strategically, but just maybe isn't interesting enough to the audience where actually, it would still perform.

“What's really interesting is there are actually companies that I’ll say no to that I would invest in, that I think are great businesses, and I think to have something interesting strategically, but just maybe isn't interesting enough to the audience where actually, it would still perform.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

47 / recommendation

I think really, the advisor there is like, working with some of the companies and their portfolio to think about how they tell their story, writing pieces like I wrote with Chris in The Economist, they'll introduce me to companies that they have invested in and are excited about.

“I think really, the advisor there is like, working with some of the companies and their portfolio to think about how they tell their story, writing pieces like I wrote with Chris in The Economist, they'll introduce me to companies that they have invested in and are excited about.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

49 / evaluation

It was that I lied all semester and said that I was doing really well in the class. So I thought that was the best parenting lesson that I could have ever received because it was a really good lesson both in honesty and in work ethic.

“It was that I lied all semester and said that I was doing really well in the class. So I thought that was the best parenting lesson that I could have ever received because it was a really good lesson both in honesty and in work ethic.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired

50 / recommendation

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Packy McCormick
Publisher
Acquired
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