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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 18:39 Packy McCormick Own the iBuying market themselves now, did eight billion dollars of revenue last year, and now this is, I came from Breather, where we counted top line revenue as like anything that, you know, it's a, it's a generous top line.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 23:03 Packy McCormick And I also found a company called Breather on AngelList and had just started a conversation with the founder of Breather.
- ▶ 23:34 Packy McCormick In this weird kind of winding interview process just with breather, um, you know, traded pretty actively, made some of the dumbest trades in the history of the world.
- ▶ 26:32 Packy McCormick When I was applying to Breather though, I mean, like I had done marketing.
- ▶ 29:19 Packy McCormick And I think that all, that all helps because I mean, we'll get to breather, but that was my first, you know, first year's experience was doing that exact same thing.
- ▶ 29:56 Packy McCormick I mean, I think when I ended up, you know, so my interview process at Breather was doing a bunch of really random things.
- ▶ 30:09 David Rosenthal How big was the company at that point?
- ▶ 31:07 Packy McCormick 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.
- ▶ 31:26 Packy McCormick So I ended up getting the job and the job for the first year at Breather was we needed to, so what, what Breather did was it rented out meeting and workspace and beginning these very small meeting rooms for as little as half an hour at a…
- ▶ 33:01 Packy McCormick So some of that was me going and literally just cleaning breather spaces.
- ▶ 33:16 Packy McCormick Messengers to clean breather spaces since they're moving around the city anyway.
- ▶ 35:13 Packy McCormick So incredible experience of breather, but none of it was particularly easy.
- ▶ 35:45 Packy McCormick Um, but that was about a 150 person team, including kind of our operations associates who were full-time employees of Breather and, and cleaned and maintained the spaces, all the way to our team of designers, our customer care team, our…
- ▶ 36:45 Packy McCormick I probably stayed at Breather for two years longer than I should have because I really loved the team of people that I, that I was working with.
- ▶ 40:56 Packy McCormick I did on deck at the same time because I, after I left Breather.
- ▶ 40:59 Packy McCormick So, you know, it was a little bit later that I did on deck, but after I finally left Breather, I, I had tried to quit a few times in 2019.
- ▶ 42:38 Packy McCormick And so while I was a breather, I was, I was writing that, and I realized I like writing, and occasionally I would do an essay.
- ▶ 43:18 Packy McCormick I mean, like, even while I was at Bank of America, when I was in college, when I was at Breather, I always knew that I wanted to start what I thought, you know, would be a real big startup.
- ▶ 43:26 Packy McCormick I had just managed a big team and I thought I, I was actually interim CEO for a little while at Breather and thought that I did a fine job there.
- ▶ 44:20 Packy McCormick and I think it all comes from the same spot is, you know, the name not boring comes from, which is I had dinner with my mom and her business partner one night in New York while I was still at breather and her business partner asked me what…
- ▶ 53:34 Packy McCormick You know, like when I joined breather and took a lower salary and it was a risky thing, my mindset was like, you know, my absolute worst case scenario here is that I moved back to my parents' house