"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 unlocking progress. 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 more about how we decide to do deep-dives, checkout our policy here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 first computer. Tom is a 5x founder, having also previously created over a dozen mobile apps and starting storage company Omni. SPONSOR -- Tegus This episode is sponsored by Tegus, the leading modern research platform for institutional investors. Tegus is the most comprehensive database of expert call interviews with former executives, customers, competitors, and industry experts. It's a a tech-first platform that makes it easy to surface and search SEC filings and earning transcripts. Plus you can get expert calls at a fraction of the typical cost. It has unmatched info on public and private company. Check it out today: https://www.tegus.com/trial/notboring --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 plans for the next few months. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 Pocus in an uncertain macro environment. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 something really, really important. They address the accuracy of that title, the current state of the market, N-of-1 markets, and much more. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 created and owned, bridging the gap between Hollywood and the metaverse. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 on healthcare, company building, and a variety of tangentially related topics, including NLPs for biblical text, the supply chain crisis, and building companies that matter. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 discuss tactics for taking on incumbents, the power of spreadsheets, and startup culture in Portugal. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 customer experience. Excitingly, Summer officially launched today June 7th, 2022 -- and you can go check them out at gosummer.com to learn more. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 that character. But one level up, Tally is a decentralized storytelling company and its building the necessary tools, like Writer's Room, to make that possible. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 started making money with software, and why he think's there is still alpha in being authentic. His story is central to the story of Replit. In Packy's Deep Dive on Replit in December of 2021, he called that "Replit will be a $100B company" and after listening to today's conversation with Amjad, it's hard to not at least root for that. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 talent matching platform. Just yesterday, Bravado announced that it raised $26M in a round led by Tiger Global. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 built for farmers. Mackenzie shares the Ambrook story, in her own words. Sponsor The Founder's Letter is sponsored by Compound. Compound is a full-stack financial management platform offering financial advice, tax, lending, estate planning, and investment allocation and has served 1,000s of clients from companies like Stripe, Figma, and Airtable. Stripe Ambrook Video --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 repeatedly throughout history. Seemingly frivolous or unproductive experimentation ultimately leading to major breakthroughs. Packy explores this historical trend in the context of our current markets and offers an optimistic view of where the last decade of seemingly frivolous experimentation and resourcing may take us in the future. This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 for nearly a decade. In fact, Stratechery, and Ben's work generally, was the initial inspiration for Not Boring. Subscribe to Cartoon Avatars here. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 the table, and upside in the outcome. This essay covers three topics: What does Twitter think it is, and what is Twitter? What New Twitter should build TweeterDAO This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 the world in the next decade. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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/ageofmiracles/message

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 how social media and other platforms are designed for people that already know each other and not for building a community of strangers on the internet. Mighty, however, was natively designed for community building on the internet -- prioritizing creator customization, social lubrication, and context. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

ReFi (Regenerative Finance) is having a moment. ReFi is a reimagining of the financial system that accounts for the needs of all stakeholders, current and future. It puts a price on externalities: charging those who create negative externalities and rewarding those who create positive externalities. Celo is becoming ReFi's home. Celo is a carbon-negative EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to make it accessible and usable by anyone with a smartphone, anywhere in the world. Celo was built with its mission in mind and is making a big bet: in an omni-chain world where liquidity is not loyal, a blockchains distinctiveness and strength of mission will determine success. In this essay -- Not Boring breaks down Celo's mission and what the world looks like if it succeeds. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

When Adam Smith began writing about an invisible hand, a metaphor for the market’s self-correcting mechanisms, in 1759, the world was very local, and information moved at a more leisurely pace. Today, though, information zips around the world instantly, the talent pool is becoming more liquid and global, venture capital has more money to deploy than ever before, and the scope of the world’s ambitions are getting bigger. Ideally, all of this combines into one big matching engine that puts the right people and capital to the right problems. How does the swarm know what to attack? Packy explains entrepreneurship through his concept of The Visible Swarm. This audio essay is sponsored by Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Shane Curran is the founder and CEO of Evervault. Evervault is an encryption infrastructure company that makes collecting, processing, and sharing sensitive data ultra secure. When a company encrypts with Evervault, they could put their database on a billboard and no one could get at the data. The company’s mission is to encrypt the web. Its goal is to end data breaches. To support the podcasts, please subscribe, rate and share. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, ect) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Not Boring just turned two years old. Packy reflects on the last two years of Not Boring and looks to the year ahead. Each of the first two years of Not Boring had a defining "thing." Year 1: Grow the newsletter and survive Year 2: Not Boring Capital For Year 3, Not Boring is building a Liquid Super Team. Packy discusses why he was originally hesitant to build a team, what has changed, and what the new team will be focused on. Plus, Packy shares a redacted version of the Not Boring Capital Q1 2022 update that was shared with LPs last not. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Mariam Hakobyan is the co-founber and CEO of Softr. Softr is an easy-to-use no-code platform to build powerful websites, web-apps and client portals from Airtable, in 10 minutes. With Softr, non-technical users can easily build web-apps that previously would’ve required engineering resources. Softr is riding the No-Code wave, and in this discussion Packy and Mariam discuss the progress of No-Code, how it will transform the ways in which we work, and why Softr is well positioned to become a leading player within the industry. Mariam also shares how Softr won Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty Award for Product of the Year, what building a community actually looks like, and the importance of building easy-to-use products. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Hadrian is different than the companies we normally talk about in Not Boring. While it relies heavily on software, its main focus is in the world of atoms. It uses big machines to make precision parts for rockets and satellites. It blends automation and high-skilled labor. It’s an incredible example of something we’re going to see a lot more of in the coming years (partially because Hadrian exists): startups tackling very hard, government-level problems in the physical world (and space). I’m very eager to see what happens as the worlds of bits and atoms continue to interact and co-evolve. If Hadrian succeeds in its boldest missions, Americans will build hard things with speed once again, we’ll grow a new skilled labor force by making manufacturing cool, and freedom will reign among the stars. High stakes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs. LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that enables the realization of cross-chain applications with a low-level communication primitive — simply put, LayerZero enables more secure and affordable cross-chain activity. During the podcast, LayerZero announced it had raised a $135M round co-lead by Sequoia, a16z, and FTX. For someone who was likely receiving hundreds of congratulatory messages while recording, Bryan seemed wholly focused on the conversation at hand. Bryan has been in the crypto space since 2013, spent eight years as a professional poker player, and has started & sold multiple companies. When asked why he’s working on LayerZero, Bryan stated he likes working on hard problems. SPONSOR Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, ect) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Kaeya Majumunday is the founder and CEO of Swaypay. Swaypay is a platform that allows customers to get cashback for posts on TikTok. Customers earn cashback for posting about their recent purchases and brands can get free content and distribution from authentic brand ambassadors. Kaeya and Packy discuss Swaypay’s recent copycats and why she takes it as a strong signal of success for her company. Kaeya has been working on different iterations for Swaypay for over 10 years, after she launched her first company on Sharktank at the age of 19. Since then, she’s obsessed over the idea of turning sway into value for both customers and brands alike. Sponsor Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, ect) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. Show Links www.swaypayit.com Kaeya Majumunday Twitter thread from Kaeya on Swaypay Work at Swaypay “The next big thing will start out looking like a toy” by Chris Dixon HBS article on Aflac Not Boring Links Not Boring Not Boring Founders on Spotify Packy McCormick (@packym) on Twitter Not Boring (@notboringco) on twitter Join the Not Boring Talent Collective (candidates + companies) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Elon Musk sparked The Current Thing Meme. There's another meme happening: The Current Financial Thing. Everyone agrees that things are bad, and they agree in the same way. They even agree on how things are going to play out. Groups of humans aren't typically right when they all agree on what the future will bring. Will they be this time? You can read the full post at Not Boring. Thanks to our presenting sponsor for all Q1 Audio Editions... Masterworks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Alice Albrecht is the founder and CEO of re:collect. re:collect is focused on augmenting human memory and creativity. The product tracks what you're reading and ingests other content information (like notes, highlights, ect) and hands you "thought building-blocks" in the moment of creation. They are building an automatic bridge between you, your digital knowledge, and your ideas. But re:collect is not your standard "productivity app," in fact, Alice breaks down why most productivity apps fail and why her product may be different. Packy and Alice discuss how re:collect is really only possible within the last few years, thanks to advancements in AI/ML, but why humans will always have the advantage of creativity over machines. In starting re:collect, Alice brings with her over a decade of data & product management experience as well as a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (Psychology) from Yale Univeristy. You can find Alice on Twitter @alicealbrecht and signup for re:collect at www.re-collect.ai SPONSOR Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, ect) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Ben Rollert is the co-founder and CEO of Composer. Composed is an automated trading platform that allows users to build hedge-fund like strategies with a no-code visual editor. Ben and Packy first met while working together at Breather over 6 years ago, where Ben established himself as "the smartest person Packy has ever met." Composer aims to bring modern software thinking to asset management -- users can create, remix, and share their investing strategies. Ben believes the lines between retail and institutional investors are going to continue to blur, as companies like Composer democratize access to sophisticated tools previously only available to hedge funds. Finally, Ben shares his thoughts on how Composer creators can monetize their trading strategies -- and why that differs from traditional copy trading. Composer was the first investment Packy made out of the Not Boring Syndicate, and to date, it's made him look smart. Following Packy's investment, First Round came in to back Ben and the Composer team, and Composer's found product-market fit early. SPONSOR Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, ect) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Today, Ramp announced that it raised $750 million -- $200 million in equity and $550 in debt -- at an $8.1 billion valuation from existing investors, led by Keith Rabois at Founders Fund. Not Boring Capital participated. It also hit $100 million in annualized revenue just two years after launching. For this piece, Ramp's co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh let me peek behind the curtains to help understand what Ramp is building and how. I think that they have a Google-sized opportunity in front of them. You can read the full piece at Not Boring. Thanks to today's sponsor, Masterworks, the best place to invest in world-class art without needing a world-class bank account. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Rushir Parikh is the co-founder and CEO of Popchew. Popchew is a platform that allows creators to build their own restaurant brands at a national scale. When Packy first met Rushir, he passed on investing -- in this conversation, Packy explains how he (thankfully) was able to invest later on and Rushir lays out the massive vision that Packy missed the first time around. Popchew has three main stakeholders: creators, consumers, and operators. Rushir explains how Popchew gives creators a new way to connect with their audiences, consumers a more fun way of eating, and operators additional volume. 60% of Americans report getting food delivered at least once a week. Rushir believes Popchew can make that experience more fun and profitable. SPONSOR: Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX US. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, Eth, Sol, Doge, ect) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Vance Roush is the founder of Overflow. Overflow builds infrastructure that makes generosity frictionless across every major asset class. The inspiration for Overflow came from Vance's other calling -- he's the founder of Vive Church, an Bay Area based church that now has over 4,000 members across 10 locations. As Treasure of Vive, Vance realized that the church's tech-focused congregation had no easy way to donate non-cash assets--like stock--to the church. He also knew that non-cash donations were the most advantageous from a tax perspective. So he built Overflow. Overflow makes it easy to donate non-cash assets to nonprofits and churches -- unlocking generosity from contributors and opening up new sources of funding for organizations that need it most. In this wide ranging conversation, Packy and Vance cover everything from the nature of eternity to the nitty gritty of 501(c)((3) tax codes. They also discuss Overflow's opportunity to unlock billions of dollars of generosity, the company's GTM strategy, and why giving can and should be as cool as angel investing. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing, rating, and sharing with your most Not Boring friends! SPONSOR: Season 2 of Not Boring Founders is sponsored by FTX. You may know FTX because of its innovations in crypto derivatives or its ultra-rich & altruistic founder, SBF -- but what you may not know is that the FTX App is available in the US for all crypto traders...and that it's the cheapest exchange out there, with no minimum, ACH, or withdrawal fees. The company is moving fast and now offers crypto trading (Bitcoin, ETH, SOL, DOGE, etc) and supports NFTs -- and is releasing new products seemingly every month. Download the FTX App today, invest $10 and get a free coin from FTX in exchange. Use this download link and enter code "notboring" when you sign up to redeem the offer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Fount is running the Elon Musk Company Formula on health. The Starting Point is that healthcare is broken – we spend too much money on managing diseases versus preventing or curing them, and we rarely optimize for performance. We’re wasting human and financial capital. Today, Fount is in the “Sustainable Business Model” phase. Just like rich people have always been happy to spend on nice cars, they’ve also always been happy to spend on things that make them look, feel, and perform better. At $5,000 per month to start, Fount generates strong margins on real, and rapidly growing, revenue. Fount 1.0 funds the Company Innovation, directly and with VC dollars. Fount’s innovation is that it will be the first organization – company, government, or university – to figure out how to collect the experimental data needed to build predictive models. The company’s best estimate is that that will take 5,000 people. You can be one of them. That data will help Fount build predictive models of the brain and body that deliver real, measurable results to large numbers of people via software. If it pulls it off, the models will be the Match That Ignites an Industry. It will take a revolution in the way the industry approaches health and a wave of companies building powerful solutions on top of good data and models to get to that future. Many companies will build on top of Fount’s platform, others will compete. If Fount is able to successfully ignite the industry, it could mean achieving the Goal of putting a big chunk of the $4 trillion we’d normally spend on healthcare annually in the US alone to more productive uses, helping people reduce stress and tension and increase self-understanding, and giving people the tools to maximize their potential (while still enjoying life to the fullest). The Result of the Goal, if everything goes just right, will be to optimize people so that we can build an amazing future together. --------- To try Fount for yourself, you can skip the waitlist by signing up with the Not Boring link or apply for the Fount Not Boring Scholarship for a free year. --------- Thanks to our presenting sponsor of the audio verion of Not Boring: Masterworks. Thanks to Composer for sponsoring the Not Boring newsletter: Invest with Composer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Rohit Mittal founded Stilt to give loans to immigrants and underserved people for whom traditional underwriting models didn't work. He came to the US as an immigrant and experienced the pain of establishing credit without any, and after years of working within the system and learning, he built the product to fix it. That meant rebuilding everything -- new underwriting models, license, tech stack -- and stitching it all together. With the rise of embedded finance and banking-as-a-service, it turns out that the stack Rohit and team built from scratch was really valuable to a lot of companies who wanted to start extending credit to their customers. At first, Rohit helped some YC companies figure out how to do it, but enough of them were asking -- and just wanted an easy API they could plug in -- that the company built a product: Onbo. Onbo lets companies build credit products without a bank sponsor, in weeks instead of months or years, for a fraction of the cost. Despite just coming out of stealth, the new business line is growing like wild. On today's episode, Rohit and I dive into the nuts and bolts of spinning out company infrastructure as its own product, why GTM motions are so different in API-first and consumer, and much more. If you like this episode, consider leaving us a rating in your podcast player of choice and telling your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Flow, the blockchain for open worlds created by Dapper Labs, is a normie blockchain. In a world in which L1s are battling for 300 million crypto users, going for the other 4.7 billion internet users is crazy differentiated enough that it just might work. You can read the full essay at Not Boring. Thanks to our presenting sponsor, Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Abrar Ul Haq is the co-founder of Tazah, a B2B agricultural marketplace that provides access to market and access to capital to millions of farmers in Pakistan and in the middle east region. Prior to Tazah, Abrar and his co-founder worked at Careem, a regional super app that competed with Uber, beat it in its home region, and then got acquired by Uber. In this episode, Abrar shares the lessons he learned at Careem and how he's applying them to building a fast-growing marketplace. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Today, Quaestor is announcing a rebrand to Standard Metrics and a fresh $23.7 million Series A to build the data and relationship graph for the private markets. In this episode, we'll discuss why the private markets, and especially venture capital, needs an Entropy Wrangler, and the two key strategic decisions that Standard Metrics is making to ensure that it becomes the platform on top of which private markets investing apps are built. You can read the full post at not boring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Neuro-ID and Alloy are teaming up to tackle the $721B in estimated losses from identity theft, stop fraud ring attacks, and create smoother experiences for good customers. We dig into the direct fraud problem and the even bigger problem caused by stopping good actors who want to purchase. Plus, Jack and Tommy share how a partnership like this comes together in the first place. Disclosure: Neuro-ID is a Not Boring Capital portfolio company. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

I recently read two books on quantum physics by Carlo Rovelli: The Order of Time and Helgoland. While this isn't a quantum physics podcast, I think they're actually useful to think about in our context in three ways. Understanding the current state of the science. It’s at least interesting, if not practically useful to most of our day jobs, to understand where the cutting edge of physics is today. Web of Relations as a useful model. Quantum theory’s main insight – that everything exists as a web of relations – is a helpful framework for many of the ideas that we discuss here. Getting comfortable with the weird. I don’t remember a lot of the specifics from the essays I write; I can’t expect you to. Instead, I want you to walk away with an informed open-mindedness and comfort with new technologies and ideas. I’m successful here if you see something new and crazy and think, “Woah, fascinating” instead of “Yeah right 🙄.” You can read the full piece at not boring. Thanks to our presenting audio sponsor, Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

In five years, Snappr has gone from graduation photography to the leading on-demand marketplace for professional photography and now, to end-to-end visual content workflow software used by many of the world's largest companies and marketplaces. Matt Schiller is running the the API-first playbook in reverse, and the business is growing like a weed. You can read the full post at Not Boring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

The American Dream is on life support, but it's not dead. We need to stop focusing so much time worrying about protecting peoples’ downsides and start spending more time working on getting more people more upside. We can revive the American Dream by making ownership an explicit economic strategy. You can read the full post at Not Boring. Thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Last week, Not Boring crossed 100,000 subscribers. In this episode, we take a quick look back, brush off the trolls, and re-commit to taking risks, getting things wrong, and being unabashedly optimistic. You can read the full post at Not Boring. Thanks to the Presenting Sponsor of Not Boring's Audio Editions: Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

The dialogue around web3 has turned into a full-fledged debate and the focus has shifted to winning instead of the truth. I actually debated in high school and college, and started a Debate Club in NYC. I think the web3 debate is silly, and that the right answer is always in the middle, but after Prof G dropped his rebuttal against web3 for the Opposition, I had no choice but to jump in for the Proposition. You can read the full post at Not Boring. Thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Masterworks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message