"Age of Miracles"

Amplified Tribalism: Over the past few months, I’ve noticed a vibe shift online: the conversation seems to be getting more negative, aggressive, and polarized. Today’s piece is an attempt to unpack why so many people are talking past each other, why it’s so unproductive, and what to do about it. It’s not as upbeat as a lot of Not Boring pieces, but I think addressing this issue is crucial to unloc...

Sponsored Deep Dive on Circle & USDC. In one of our longest essays yet, we tackle the following topics: What are stablecoins? How do stablecoin issuers generate revenue? Why are stablecoins a valuable primitive? How are USDC and Circle a platform? What is Circle’s competitive advantage? What would a new financial system built on Circle’s rails look like? This essay is sponsored by Circle. To learn...

Monday Essay -- "Intertwining Threads": Imagining the wild things that might happen when we mix and remix new technologies. Sponsored by Athletic Greens. Athletic Green's AG1 is foundational nutrition you can count on. Learn more at athleticgreens.com/notboring and when you use our link get a free 1 year supply of Vitamin D + 5 free AG1 travel packs.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaster...

Thomas McLeod is the Founder and Executive Director of Arkive. Arkive is redefining culture by building the first-ever decentralized physical museum. Its mission is to curate, own, and create culture. Its community helps shape the future, by curating the past -- members vote on what items to acquire, how to display them, and much more. The first item Arkive acquired was the patent to ENIAC -- the...

Alok Tayi is the founder and CEO of Vibe Bio. Vibe Bio is a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding and developing promising treatments to rare diseases and empowering patient communities with unprecedented ownership over the process. Packy and Alok discuss how rare diseases can find cures, the biotech industry today, and why Vibe is built on web3 rails. S...

Samiur Rahman is the co-founder and CEO of Heyday. Heyday is a browser extension that automatically saves web pages you visit and pulls in content from your apps. It uses AI to resurface that content alongside Google search results, overlay it on articles, and curate it into a knowledge base that fills itself. Samiur joins the show to discuss some big news, building great products, and Heyday's pl...

Alexa Grabell is the co-founder and CEO of Pocus. Pocus is a Product-Led Sales platform that helps go-to-market teams use data to improve customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion - without relying on engineers. This is Alexa's second time on Not Boring Founders and she joins us to discuss some big news, what Pocus has been up to for the last 8 months, and how she's approaching operating Poc...

Henry Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Carta. Carta helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans. Packy previously described Henry as a "Worldbuilder" - an entrepreneur who can see something non-obvious about the future, timestamp their prediction, and then execute against that prediction (sometimes for over a decade) until they end of building...

Justin & J.P. Alanís are the co-founders of StoryDAO. Story DAO is a new kind of production studio where individuals have the opportunity to collaborate with established Hollywood writers and artists to create and co-own the next generation of culturally relevant story franchises. It's a radical experiment in community world-building and is changing the way franchise intellectual property is creat...

Will Manidis is the co-founder and CEO of ScienceIO. ScienceIO's mission is to make all healthcare data computable. It's products enable real-time transformation of unstructured healthcare data into structured data that can be used for search & analysis. If Will and team are successful, he envisions a world in which healthcare is more connected, transparent and equitable.   Packy and Will go deep...

Humberto Ayres Pereira is the co-founder and CEO of Rows. Rows is the spreadsheet with superpowers. With Rows, you can esily create and share powerful, interactive models with a passionate community of other spreadsheet users. It's taking on the likes of Microsoft & Google head on, and doing so by focusing on its interactivity and sharing functionality. In this conversation, Packy and Humberto dis...

Paul Kromidas and Woods Buckley are the founders of Summer. Summer is re-imaging second home ownership -- with a unique rent-to-own model, members get the benefit of homeownership without the headache of the purchasing process, furnishing, and rental management. In this conversation, they discuss Summer's ten year vision, why people do & don't buy homes, wealth creation, and creating a great custo...

Tally Labs is a software-enabled web3 media business blurring the lines between community and creators. Packy is joined by its two pseudonymous founds, SAFA and Valet Jones. Tally Labs started as a media business built around the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT known as Jenkins the Valet -- and today the team is working on a book with Neil Strauss, a series of podcasts, and partnerships all built around...

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit. Replit's mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. The company believes that the ability to write code should be as ubiquitous as the ability to write essays -- and it wants to be the first place that anyone writes a line of code. In this wide-ranging, long-form conversation Amjad tells us of his roots in Jordan, how he first st...

Packy and writing collaborator, Tina He, break down token design and why now is the perfect time for tinkerers to build new economies. The piece also explores how protocols are similar to corporations and nations, and where those analogies fall apart -- while suggesting a new framework for evaluating good token design. This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: http...

Sahil Mansuri is the founder and CEO of Bravado. Bravado is the largest network of sales professionals, with over 200,000 salespeople on the platform. The company is building a killer community and business around salespeople with the hopes of building a bottoms up sales network. Currently the company has three core products: a community for sales people to connect, a transparency product, and a t...

Introducing The Founder's Letter, a new series by Not Boring. Storytelling is core to Not Boring, but usually it's from Packy's perspective. With The Founder's Letter, founders tell their story directly to the audience, in their own words. Mackenzie Burnett is the CEO and Cofounder of Ambrook. Ambrook creates finance software for farms, from bookkeeping, to spend cards, to capital -- all purpose b...

Alex Herrity is the co-founder of Anima. Anima is a augmented reality, NFT company blending the physical and digital worlds. Packy and Alex discuss the current state of the NFT market, building in a bear marketing, Anima's decades long vision, and what the company does today. SponsorSeason 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto deriva...

Isaac Newton's lifelong pursuit of alchemy may surprise you. Newton is the father of science and one of the most rational thinkers in history, but he also dedicated enormous amounts of time and energy to the now discredited field of alchemy. Yet, without alchemy we do not have chemistry. Many of the key problems and methods posed by alchemy would lead to the development of chemistry. We see this r...

This is episode is a cross-post from the podcast Cartoon Avatars, hosted by Logan Bartlett. Logan is joined by Packy and Ben Thompson of Stratechery. Packy, Ben, and Logan talk about their respective businesses and experiences on the internet, and give advice for other content creators. Packy and Logan have been friends for nearly 15 years. And both Packy and Logan have been reading Ben Thompson f...

When the Twitter acquisition was a story about free speech and content moderation, I didn’t have much to say. Those are really hard problems about which I have no special insights to contribute. But over the past week, the story has evolved into one with which I’m much more comfortable: how to better monetize Twitter. I have some ideas, one of which is that Twitter’s users should have a seat at th...

Gabby Dizon is the co-founder of Yield Guild Gaming (YGG). On its website, it says YGG is a play-to-earn gaming guild, bringing players together to earn via blockchain based economies. That description is starting to expand - YGG is quickly becoming the infrastructure for x-to-earn DAOs. Packy and Gabby discuss the future of ownership, earning, and work and how the the x-to-earn model can shape th...

Packy is joined by Alex Danco of Shopify's Blockchain team to discuss "Tokengated Commerce." Alex breaks down what it means to make Shopify "wallet-aware," answers why this type of commerce needs blockchains, and paints a picture of what web3 commerce might look like in the future.  This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a...

Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks. Mighty is a platform that makes it easy to create, grow and monetize online communities. Mighty is the result of nearly two decades of Gina's career spent building online social products back to the early 2000s, when she built Ning with Marc Andreessen, and she's been building for community and online social spaces ever since. Gina explains...

Alamin Uddin is the co-founder and CEO of NexHealth. NexHealth’s mission is to accelerate innovation in healthcare. It's doing it by making it easy for your health data to go from point A to point B, and from doctor to doctor. The company recently announced its Series C round of $125M at a $1B valuation led by Buckley Ventures. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You ma...