Not Boring Capital

part of Not Boring

9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2021 by Packy McCormick · said 20 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 3, 2021
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McCormick: Not Boring Capital never led a round across 91 investments
“Did you lead a single round? Did you write any term sheets? Were you the biggest check in any one of those 91 investments? Never. And that's all part of the strategy, right?”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 1:59:00 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021 positive
Insight
McCormick: Running a venture fund scales better than writing sponsored newsletters
“It does scale a lot better to run a venture fund than to show up every week and get a sponsor and then write, write an essay.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 1:56:17 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
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McCormick: Winning founder allocation depends on if they are already active readers
“I don't think it's gotten, you know, any easier convincing founders to give me allocation at 50,000 readers or 88,000 readers. Like if they're a reader, then they kind of get it. And if they're not, then You know, they don't on the sponsorship side. It's diffe…”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 2:38:09 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021
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McCormick: Not Boring Capital Fund I was $9.99 million
“9.99 million dollars.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 2:05:55 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021
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McCormick: I made 91 investments in Not Boring Capital Fund 1
“Fund when I did fund when I did 91 91 investments and not all of them have investment memos.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 1:56:59 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
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McCormick: Venture funds cannot deploy a billion dollars purely with follow-on checks
“It changes the strategy completely though. You can't deploy a billion dollars in follow checks.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 2:54:39 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021 negative
Disclosure
McCormick: Becoming a full-time VC partner would never be attractive
“I've had that other conversation with funds, too, where it's like, hey, you want to come work and, you know, be a full-time partner at this fund? And no, like, we've talked for the past couple of hours about how much fun I'm having doing this particular thing,…”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 2:31:45 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021
Disclosure
McCormick: Not Boring Fund II would potentially target $25M to $30M
“And fund two, were it to exist would potentially be in the 25 to thirty million dollar range.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 2:06:06 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
Dec 3, 2021
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McCormick: Not Boring Capital does less diligence than most co-investors
“I wrote in both the public and private memo that like I'm doing probably less diligence than most people on a specific company than most people who are investing in a company will.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 2:00:05 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
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