Packy McCormick
16 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 12, 2024 by Kyle Harrison · said 16 times in 6 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Apple in China: Tim Cook’s $275B Pledge | Patrick McGee · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Apr 12, 2024 positive
Creators like Lenny Rachitsky and Packy McCormick built valuable media assets
“Like I think there are people like the Lenny's and the packies and folks like that, that have just really, I'm a big fan of Mario Gabrielle and the generalists, like those types of people I think have done an incredible job building a real asset.”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
McCormick: Series B and C capital is easy once category leadership is clear
“But I think actually the B and then the C, like, once they get to a certain point and do some of those things, and it becomes clear to others that, like, if anybody wins this category, it's going to be this company, then capital, I think, actually becomes, lik…”
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
McCormick: Vertical integrators take integration risk over science risk to outperform incumbents
“There's a lot of like deep tech that I think you're taking science risk. And like, I think with vertical integrators, you're taking integration risk where there's like five different kind of like cutting edge-ish, but proven technologies that you're trying to …”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
McCormick: Fuse monetizes pulsed power radiation before reaching fusion energy
“If you go with this one particular architecture, what you're really doing is selling radiation by building these pulse power generators, and you can use that for Radhart Electronics and nuclear arsenal testing and, like, all these things that can, like, genera…”
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Feb 14, 2025 positive
McCormick: Founder magnetism and fear of disappointing them drives peak performance
“It all comes down to people and like the team that you build and like what you get out of your people in the end. So if you have this like magnetism Or, like, there's almost, like, people have a fear of disappointing you and, like, they really want to, like, d…”
Feb 14, 2025 negative
McCormick: Much of VC Diligence Is Performative Theater to Justify Deals
“Cause I do think there's like just so much venture theater. Where, like, you just have to do a bunch of stuff because, like, your boss, you know, your GP expects it, or their LPs expect it. Like, there's just a bunch of, like, shit that you have to produce to,…”
Feb 14, 2025
McCormick: Startups requiring compounding miracles to succeed never work out
“I can see like if this happens and then this happens and then this happens and then that happens and like things go just right here, like this could be a really big company and like it never works. Like you can't like, you know, there's the compounding miracle…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
McCormick: Backing the right founder is a compression algorithm for research
“I do think, like, and people say this, and it's cheesy, and it's, like, also true, is that the founder really matters, and, like, there's definitely a midwit curve on that that I've written about before, which is, like, You think founders really matter and the…”
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Aug 8, 2025 negative
McCormick: Claude's Writing Feedback Is Bad, Regresses Drafts Toward Mediocrity
“I will take my, if I'm, like, stuck in writing an essay, I'll, like, take the draft, I'll put it in Claude and ask for feedback, and, like, the feedback is bad, and it always, like, tries to move me more towards average, and I ignore it, but, like, I just have…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
McCormick: Fuse recruited the former number two Iranian nuclear scientist
“The number of two, kind of, nuclear scientists in, in Iran who came over here to, kind of, work on, on our side here, and then just, like, everybody that I met who was, like, you know, working on the machines, like top to bottom, just like an unbelievably cool…”
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Packy: Deep tech execution inherently creates uncopyable marketing content
“For these companies, there's just, like, actually an opportunity to just show off what you're doing, and, like, that in itself is differentiated because it's so hard to do. That like just actually getting the thing done, like kind of creates all of this unbeli…”