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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 3:16 Ben Gilbert We have Anu Hariharan tonight from Y Combinator, the infamous Paki McCormick from Not Boring, Mario Gabriele from The Generalist, two of the Internet's finest publications, so very excited to chop it up with them.
- ▶ 16:23 Ben Gilbert Dude, you invested not boring capital's money in buying the constitution.
- ▶ 41:00 Ben Gilbert NotBoring.co, ReadTheGeneralist.com, you should follow Shu on Twitter.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14 Ben Gilbert Not Boring.
- ▶ 1:22 Ben Gilbert Not Boring is the number one substack newsletter on business.
- ▶ 1:40 Ben Gilbert Not Boring is only a year and a half old.
- ▶ 1:43 Ben Gilbert The Not Boring story isn't just impressive because of its explosive growth.
- ▶ 2:34 Ben Gilbert I had two more, I cut them, it turned into just like a long series of not boring titles.
- ▶ 7:11 Ben Gilbert Well, before we dive into history and facts, we should say this show is not investment advice, though David and I are both investors in multiple not boring entities.
- ▶ 12:24 Ben Gilbert Well, and, and, and I think that comes through and not boring.
- ▶ 36:00 Ben Gilbert So I'm assembling sort of the, the, the cornucopia or the puzzle pieces that, that would become not boring eventually.
- ▶ 39:43 Ben Gilbert To foreshadow, I think at one point early on, you described Not Boring as if, uh, Bill Simmons and Ben Thompson had a baby, and so clearly this is where the sort of Ben Thompson side comes from.
- ▶ 42:03 Ben Gilbert Ok, so, when you did leave, I, and I, I think many people, uh, know some of your history here, you didn't start Not Boring as we know it today right away.
- ▶ 42:19 Ben Gilbert With the Not Boring Club, this social in-person experiment, but also a different email newsletter.
- ▶ 50:46 Ben Gilbert I, I, this is the not boring episode, not the acquired episode, but I I've had a few conversations recently with people who have grown, um, a brand, a personal brand very quickly online.
- ▶ 1:34:28 Ben Gilbert Uh, you also sent out a tweet in February that you wanted not boring to make one million dollars this year, which as David has in the notes, uh, sounds effing crazy.
- ▶ 1:34:51 Ben Gilbert Were you already contemplating Not Boring Capital?
- ▶ 1:39:31 Ben Gilbert Well, I know numbers-wise, there are people who listen to Acquired who aren't, um, subscribed to NotBoring, but I don't, in my head, I'm like, who are those people?
- ▶ 1:40:07 Ben Gilbert Oh my God, go, go, go subscribe.
- ▶ 2:10:53 Ben Gilbert For Not Boring Capital, Packy doesn't need to have associates that are pounding the pavement out in the community meeting with entrepreneurs because he has a digital way to do that called Not Boring the Newsletter, and that way he gets…
- ▶ 2:10:53 Ben Gilbert For Not Boring Capital, Packy doesn't need to have associates that are pounding the pavement out in the community meeting with entrepreneurs because he has a digital way to do that called Not Boring the Newsletter, and that way he gets…
- ▶ 2:19:21 Ben Gilbert It's to kind of go that morning brew route where you're like, actually, there is a brand voice and a format here, and if we can hire correctly for people that can do the not boring thing, kind of like they did for the, I mean, that's a,…
- ▶ 2:32:10 Ben Gilbert So you, you, you've got this concept of the not boring flywheel, um, which I wanna say any, it's, you can draw, it's kind of like you can make an Excel spreadsheet say anything.
- ▶ 2:32:28 Ben Gilbert And so, you know, uh, before actually naming the powers, you've got the, the, the not boring flywheel here that has audience at the core,
- ▶ 2:38:52 Ben Gilbert For folks, I don't know how this could possibly be your first exposure to seven powers, because you either have listened to acquired or read not boring coming into this.
- ▶ 2:39:46 Ben Gilbert And so it's, it's interesting thinking about the future value of not boring because it's
- ▶ 2:48:28 Ben Gilbert Like you probably make, I don't know, half of what not boring is baking just in salary.
- ▶ 2:53:36 Ben Gilbert Well, if you want lifestyle, you do not boring, and if you want a whole bunch of cash now and a whole bunch of cash in the future, then you go join the firm.
- ▶ 2:55:46 Ben Gilbert As the, I don't know if you're the primary or the sole shareholder of Not Boring, you also kind of just get to pick.
- ▶ 3:04:52 Ben Gilbert Well, Paki, where can listeners find you or not boring on the internet?
- ▶ 3:05:10 Ben Gilbert It's not that, like, that is how I read Not Boring is listening.