1987
Packy McCormick was born on January 26, 1987, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
“So January 26th, 1987 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.”
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Packy McCormick
17 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2008
Packy McCormick interned on Bank of America's energy trading desk in the summer of 2008.
“So I got an internship at Bank of America on the energy trading desk.”
2020
Packy McCormick compiled data on 103 of Tencent's roughly 700 investments by translating Chinese-language sources.
“I pulled 103 of their 700 investments by, you know, translating things in Google translate from Chinese, from Mandarin to English.”
2020
Packy McCormick says Zoom had only a two-person corporate development team when he last wrote about it.
“I look this up, they have a two person or at least, you know, two months ago or a month ago when I wrote about it, they have a two person corp dev team.”
2020
Packy McCormick's mother suggested reusing the name Not Boring Club for his newsletter.
“So that was my mom's idea to port the name over.”
2020
Packy McCormick built his first sponsorship deck from an audience survey describing readers' demographics and roles.
“I surveyed the audience and I asked them for their characteristics.”
2021
In February 2021, Packy McCormick tweeted that he wanted Not Boring to make $1 million that year.
“You also sent out a tweet in February that you wanted Not Boring to make $1 million this year”
2021
Constitution DAO raised almost $50 million in an attempt to buy the U.S. Constitution, and Packy McCormick took part.
“rally a group of people around this shared mission and raise almost $50 million to go fight to win the Constitution”
2021
Packy McCormick co-wrote a piece with Chris Dixon that The Economist published in late 2021.
“You, with Chris Dixon, wrote a piece that was published in The Economist”
2021
Packy McCormick's Twitter following rose from 78,000 to 106,500 between mid-October and mid-November 2021.
“you went from 78,000 followers to 106,500 followers”
Undated
While working in finance, Packy McCormick started a company called Throgo.
“I started a company called Throgo, which was a terrible name.”
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The University of Chicago's business school refused Packy McCormick's request to defer his admission, and he decided not to attend.
“I asked Chicago if I could defer. They told me, no, I couldn't defer.”
Undated
Packy McCormick joined Breather as its first US employee when the company had six people in Montreal.
“It was six people in Montreal. So I was going to be our first US employee.”
Undated
Packy McCormick says he used Uber Rush messengers to clean Breather spaces and was the service's largest user for a time.
“I was the largest consumer of Uber Rush messengers in the world for a while.”
Undated
Packy McCormick says Breather went from negative 25% gross margins to positive 25% after a strategy memo he co-wrote with data scientist Ben Rollert.
“we turned the thing around and we went from negative 25% margins to positive 25% margins.”
Undated
Packy McCormick says he paid Substack nothing because the platform does not charge on advertising revenue and has not contacted him.
“I paid $0 for my main platform because they want to pretend like ads don't exist.”
Undated
Packy McCormick's first Not Boring Capital fund made 91 investments.
“I did 91 investments and not all of them have investment memos”
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