Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Welcome to the 577 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since the last email! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 19,190 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! This is, uhh, an important week here in the United States. With nearly 100 million early votes already in, tomorrow is officially Election Day. If you haven’t voted already, let this ser...

Welcome to the 389 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 18,850 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Today’s Not Boring is brought to you by… Read on and I’ll tell you how Pipe is the smartest way to finance subscription businesses. Hi friends 👋 , Happy Thursday! I love my job. * In February, when Pipe announced its seed...

Welcome to the 574 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since the last email! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 18,613 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋 , Happy Monday! Not Boring straddles two worlds - technology and finance. I try to bring pro-level insights to a consumer audience. Today’s essay is about what happens when those things start to blur,...

Welcome to the 805 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since the last email! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 18,038 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! 💙 Hit the heart at the top to like today’s essay, and if you really love it, share it ! Hi friends 👋 , Happy Monday! I suspect that most of the people reading this newsletter could recite the Facebook, Apple, Amaz...

Welcome to the 1,034 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since the last email! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 17,234 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋 , Happy Monday! This is my first Not Boring as a dad, and we are absolutely loving it (although please forgive me if there are sections in which it seems like my brain is mush — it is.) The timing wo...

If you’re listening but haven’t subscribed, join 16,497 smart, curious folks by subscribing! Hi friends 👋, Happy Thursday! As I’ve started to monetize Not Boring, I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by the companies that want to tell you their stories. I thought I was going to need to take bold stands and say no to advertisers whose products I don’t believe in, but I’ve noticed something cool hap...

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Welcome to the 805 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 15,182 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! It’s hard to avoid SPACs. Everyone has one, Nikola is looking more and more like a fraud , and Chamath just launched three more . It’s easy to dismiss SPACs as a fad and the companies that...

Welcome to the 886 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since Thursday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 14,729 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Today’s Not Boring is brought to you by… Read on and I’ll tell you how they can send your startup $50k tomorrow. Hi friends 👋, Happy Thursday! This little newsletter and our band of smart, curious people just keeps growi...

Welcome to the 870 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Tuesday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 14,377 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! I hope all of you had a great weekend and got to spend some time away from Zoom. It’s Monday now, though, and Mondays mean Zoom. Because we all live and work on Zoom, everyone talks about...

Welcome to the 890 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since Monday! If you’re listening to this but haven’t subscribed, join 13,842 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Thursday! We have a little early Fall treat: the first-ever-back-to-back Not Boring Investment Memo. This one has a little something for everyone: * Angel Investors: A high-potential ecommerce soft...

Welcome to the 1,301 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 13,507 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Tuesday! I hope you enjoyed the Labor Day Weekend. In case last week seems oh so long ago, a little refresher: tech stocks were on an all-time tear until Thursday, when the music stopped and pric...

Welcome to the 936 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re listening to this but haven’t subscribed, join 12,206 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! 🎧  To get this essay straight in your ears:  Stripe (Audio) or on  Spotify Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! The subject of today’s essay, Stripe, is a company I’ve been wanting to write about for a long time. So many...

Welcome to the 1,085 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 11,270 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! Thanks to all of you for your feedback! I’ve read through all of it, and I’ll be incorporating a lot of your ideas in the coming weeks. One of the biggest pieces of feedback you gave was...

Welcome to the 928 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 10,185 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, I want to celebrate Ten k subscribers by going deep on the only company with the right name for the occasion, Ten cent. Tencent is the Chinese conglomerate behind the recently-banned WeChat, and one of t...

Welcome to the 367 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 9,255 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! The Hard Thing About Easy Things “Amazon is building an empire, and Shopify is trying to arm the rebels . So maybe some of our customers might compete with Amazon, at some point, but that would be like super cool, and w...

Welcome to the 1,315 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Thursday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 9,130 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! JoJo's Juice A guest post by Ali Montag Audience is the New STEM In the late-2000s, career advice for young people sounded ambitious. Study math. Learn to code. Take engineering classes. Get a job in Silicon Valley....

Welcome to the 1,309 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 8,888 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! We have a referral program! Share your unique link to win stickers, t-shirts, and fame! Hi friends 👋, Happy Monday! We’re bringing back an old favorite format today: Fantasy M&A! Let’s get to it. Acquisition in the K...

Welcome to the 513 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Thursday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 7,815 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Hi friends 👋, Happy Thursday! One of the things we’re trying to do with Not Boring is to build out a toolkit that gives forward-thinking companies and investors the things they need to succeed. Often, it’s new ways o...

Welcome to the 826 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 7,579 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Already subscribed and want to climb up the Verified Not Boring leaderboard? Juul: The SPAC 2020 Deserves SPACs are hot right now. First, in the markets, and then, of course, among business writers. Matt Levine , Alex D...

Welcome to the 582 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Thursday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 6,753 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Already subscribed and want to climb up the Verified Not Boring leaderboard? Entropy Theory 🎧  If you prefer listening, bring your ears over here:  Entropy Theory (Audio Edition) Everything tends towards chaos and di...

Welcome to the 583 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Thursday! If you’re reading this but haven’t subscribed, join 6,483 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! Already subscribed and want to climb up the Verified Not Boring leaderboard? Remember Ringtones? The lo-fi pocket songs that sparked the mobile revolution by Gil Kazimirov Before the iPhone, Venmo, or Spotify, there w...

Welcome to the 486 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! If you’re listening to this but haven’t subscribed, join 6,171 smart, curious folks by subscribing here! I’m trying something new today and including the full post with the audio edition. Let’s get to it. If I Ruled the Tweets On April 7th, just weeks into the Coronavirus pandemic, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey a...

If you’re listening to this and haven’t subscribed to Not Boring, join 5,685 smart, curious, business-savvy readers by entering your e-mail address below: Hi friends 👋🏻, I hope you enjoy the audio edition of  Hamilton & Disney’s Education Flywheel ! ✍️  If you’d like to read or share the original essay, you can find it here:  Hamilton & Disney’s Education Flywheel Below, I’ve included the graphi...

If you’re listening to this and haven’t subscribed to Not Boring, join 5,492 smart, curious, business-savvy readers by entering your e-mail address below: Hi friends 👋🏻, I hope you enjoy the audio edition of Monopolies and Magnolias ! ✍️  If you’d like to read or share the original essay, you can find it here:  Monopolies & Magnolias Below, I’ve included the graphics from the episode so that you...