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Existential Optimism Sep 27, 2021

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Power is shifting from institutions to individuals. Remote work, web3, the Great Resignation. When careers, jobs, or institutions are no longer as reliable a source of meaning as they once were, how do we find our own meaning? How do we keep it all from spinning out of control?

Today, we're waxing philosophical. We'll explore Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartres, and why now might be a good time for an existential comeback.

No doctrine is more optimistic, since it declares that man's destiny lies within himself.

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Not Boring Founders: Reed McGinley-Stempel & Julianna Lamb, Stytch Sep 24, 2021

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Going from 0 to 1 -- taking your company from idea to real live working product with customers -- is hard.

In this special edition of Not Boring Founders, Packy and Thrive Capital's Gaurav Ahuja sit down with Stytch co-founders Reed McGinley-Stempel and Julianna Lamb to discuss how they've done it. In the past 18 months, they left their jobs at Plaid and Very Good Security, raised money from Benchmark, Thrive, and other top funds, hired an all-star team, built a passwordless authentication API and SDK, and sold to their first wave of customers.

We cover:

How to make the leap from secure job to startup
The importance of clarity of thought
How to raise money from VCs
How to hire top engineers
Why you should go slow to go fast

If you're a developer, you should check out Stytch. It's user infrastructure for modern applications.

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Absolute Unit Sep 23, 2021

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Unit is a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that lets tech companies embed financial features into their products. It's growing spectacularly fast and has raised over $70 million from some of the leading investors in fintech since its founding in July 2019.

What makes Unit special is that it believes that tech companies with existing distribution are in the prime position to grow fintech over the next decade, and makes it as easy as possible for them to offer banking services to their customers by handling tech, bank relationships, compliance and more.

We'll cover:

The Fintech Apps-Infrastructure Cycle
Meet Unit
Standing out in the Competitive BaaS Space
Unit’s Growth and Opportunity

This is a sponsored deep dive x investment memo. Not Boring Capital a proud investor in Unit.

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Crypto Bezos Sep 20, 2021

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What kind of company would Jeff Bezos start if he were 30 years old today?

We look back at four '90s Bezos interviews to try to figure out what he would look for and how he would approach starting a company today. (Hint: it's probably a crypto company).

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Not Boring Founders: Chris Toy, MarketerHire Sep 16, 2021

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Chris Toy is the co-founder and CEO of MarketerHire, a talent marketplace for the world's best marketers. MarketerHire is quietly putting up some all-time great growth numbers and is perfectly positioned to help companies and talented people make the transition to the future of work -- not just where we work, but how we work. We dive into Chris' background, why marketing is the Apex predator of internet jobs, and how to build and grow a marketplace.

Today's episode is brought to you by Cometeer. Find out why it's a new day on earth for coffee, and get 50% off your first order at cometeer.com/notboring.

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The Interface Phase Sep 13, 2021

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We shape our interfaces; thereafter, they shape us.

Today, we’ll explore how those new interfaces and spaces might bring web3 mainstream:

The Apps-Infrastructure Cycle
An Incomplete History of Interface SuperCycles
Web3 Interfaces
Into the Future

We'll dive into web3 worlds like Cyber, Decentraland, The Sandbox, and Somnium Space and wallets like MetaMask, Phantom, and Rainbow to guess what web3's native interface might look like.

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Solana Summer Aug 24, 2021

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Solana is one of the most valuable and fastest growing blockchains in the world. It can handle over 65,000 transactions per second, and transactions cost a fraction of a cent. Over the past few months, both the price of SOL, its token, and developer activity on top of Solana have exploded. Today, it has a $21.5 billion market cap with over 300 projects built on Solana. It's a leading contender to join Bitcoin and Ethereum in the blockchain pantheon, and to bring the next billion users into crypto.

In this sponsored deep dive, we cover:

The Core Questions
Solana’s Story
How Solana Works
Solana’s Orbit
The Ecosystem
Case Studies: Star Atlas, Saber, Audius
How Value Accrues to Solana
Bull Case for Solana
Bear Case for Solana
Solana Summer

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Story Time: The Progressive Decentralization of Narrative Aug 16, 2021

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The way that companies tell stories and build narratives is changing -- from top-down storytelling to bottoms-up narrative-building. Because they're such empty vessels for narrative, NFT projects like CryptoPunks and Degenerate Ape Academy make a useful study.

We’ll cover:

From Storytelling to Narrative Building
Narrative in Venture Capital and Startups
Lessons from Crypto

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Lithic's New Customer Aug 12, 2021

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You may not know Lithic. Until recently, it was called Privacy.com.

In May, it announced an Amazonian move: delivering the card issuing & processing infrastructure it built for itself via an API.

Now, it's worth $800M and growing like a card rocket.

This is a fun one. We'll learn about Lithic's pivot using the framework that Ben Thompson laid out in The Amazon Tax. Build primitives, incur high fixed costs, expose primitives via API, get increasing returns to scale.

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Equi: Is That a Family Office in Your Pocket? Jul 29, 2021

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Equi is building one of the most impressive investment tech products I've ever seen.

The problem: Institutions & family offices have 50% in alternatives. Individuals have <6%. And portfolios that includes non-correlated alternative assets tend to outperform the traditional 60/40 portfolio dramatically.

The solution: Equi behaves like an alternative Fund of Funds in your pocket, providing non-UHNW investors access to a portfolio that would normally take at least $90M to construct.

We cover:

Re-Building a Modern Portfolio: Why 60/40 Doesn't Work Anymore
Meet Equi: The Family Office In Your Pocket
How Equi Invests: Pushing Out the Efficient Frontier by Backing Great Managers
Democratizing Access to the Private Markets: Combining tech, legal, and human creativity to deliver great investing at scale

You can read the full post at Not Boring.

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