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Disclosure
McCormick made a recent investment decision solely over a three-hour coffee
“It's one of the most recent decisions I made. It was, like, over a three-hour coffee. I didn't write a single word. You know, I met the guy and read the deck and loved him and invested.”
Packy McCormick Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 16:22 How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Disclosure
McCormick: Not Boring focuses on hardware-software vertical integrators beating incumbents
“Doing kind of this barbell where it's mostly these vertically integrated companies, I've written a bunch about these, we can talk about them but kind of thesis being companies that use both kind of hardware and software, build vertically integrated systems It …”
Packy McCormick Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 4:08 How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
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…”
Packy McCormick Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 18:42 How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Disclosure
McCormick: Low-conviction smaller checks account for most Not Boring failures
“A lot of my smaller checks are the ones that have failed already. It's the ones where I'm like, I don't like fully, but like, maybe like if it does, it'd be like really huge and like, it's a pretty cheap price.”
Packy McCormick Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 22:42 How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Disclosure
McCormick: Not Boring Capital manages about $50 million in total AUM
“Oh, like, 50 total AUM now, yeah.”
Packy McCormick Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 4:01 How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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