Packy McCormick
23 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2021 by Packy McCormick · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
McCormick details the scope of his advisory role with a16z Crypto
“The advisory there is like, you know, working with some of the companies in their portfolio to think about how they tell their story, writing pieces. Like I wrote with Chris in the economists, like they'll introduce me to companies, you know, that they've inve…”
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021 positive
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
McCormick: A tech bear market will lead to attacks on my optimism
“I think when the market turns and when we enter a bit of a bear market and in tech and web three, like it will be really easy to throw stones at me. Like I am unabashedly optimistic about all of this and like things are going to turn on. I'm going to like, you…”
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
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…”
Dec 3, 2021 bullish
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
Dec 3, 2021 negative
McCormick: Playing an online persona makes creator work unsustainably difficult
“If you're not yourself, it's not like a be true to yourself kind of thing. It's like, you're going to have a miserable experience because all of your interactions are going to be other people wanting to interact with this persona, or if I were writing from a d…”
Dec 3, 2021 negative
McCormick: Independent creator-investors lose value when joining traditional venture firms
“As soon as I go in-house somewhere, Like I lose half of my value or, you know, X percent of my value as soon as I go in-house somewhere. And that is kind of one, even though, you know, I do do sponsored posts and all of that, there is like this independent voi…”
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021 positive
McCormick: Substack is completely free for Not Boring's ad-supported model
“The most beautiful part about sub stack is because they've taken such a strong stand for subscriptions and against advertising. No one on their team has ever even reached out to me. And so I paid zero dollars for my main platform because they want to pretend l…”
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
Dec 3, 2021 bearish
McCormick: Not Boring has severe key-person risk and momentum slows without me
“If I get hit by a bus, like not boring is just done. And that's like the extreme example and the example that everybody uses when they talk about one person things, but that means that like every week, if I don't show up and write something, the momentum slows…”
Dec 3, 2021 bearish
Dec 3, 2021 negative
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,…”
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021 neutral
McCormick: I likely would have written a positive sponsored post on Theranos
“One of the tests that I always run for myself, and I probably actually would have failed this test, is if Theranos had come to me on a sponsored post, you know, however many years ago, chances are, frankly, I would have written something positive on Theranos b…”
Dec 3, 2021 neutral