Packy McCormick

Founder & Writer, Not Boring · 1 appearance on the record.

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Packy McCormick is the founder and writer of Not Boring, a business and technology newsletter. He also manages Not Boring Capital, an early-stage venture fund investing in tech companies.

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McCormick: 2015 New Yorker Profile Marked End of Free-Speech Journalism
“We talked about this great, great tad friend profile in the New Yorker in 2015 that I referenced in the piece that, that I wrote on a 16 Z this past week saying that that kind of kicked off or was the last kind of point in an era where journalism cared about F…”
Packy McCormick Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 1:16 Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
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McCormick: Substack will grow 10x larger than legacy media companies
“You can see a world where, because it attracts kind of all of the best writers from all of these different places who can build their own businesses, Substack becomes 10 times larger than any of the media organizations that it replaces.”
Packy McCormick Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 9:58 Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

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Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger Jan 15, 2026 5m
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