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Making the world more optimistic.
New York, NY
Joined October 2019
The Not Boring Talent Collective is heating up. • 395 candidates looking to make the leap into something new (web3, tech startup, etc). • 39 companies signed up for exclusive access to these candidates. The next talent drop is on 4/4. We're doing $250/m + no fee until then.
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We haven't shared metrics on Not Boring for a little while, so let's do it:. Scale and Growth 📈.Email Performance ✅.Audience 🧑🤝🧑.Advertiser Performance 🤝.
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The Not Boring Talent Collective is live. 275 credentialed and vetted folks looking to work at cool companies, but only 9 companies signed up so far. Here's the deal:.-we've waived placement fees.-lowered price to $250/m.-1st month free + easy cancel (code: nb2022). See below:.
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play-to-earn ➡️ x-to-earn. Gabby Dizon (@gabusch) founder of @YieldGuild joins the Not Boring Founders pod to talk the future of ownership and earning.
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*New Episode of Not Boring Founders*. @mariam_hakobyan is the co-founder & CEO of .@Softr_io. Softr is an easy-to-use no-code tool built on top of Airtable; non technical folks can build dynamic web-apps. It's growth is impressive, organic & ✨community-driven✨
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SCALE & GROWTH (2). What drives growth for Not Boring? It depends on when you asked us:. Beginning: Product Hunt, Referral System, Syndication.Middle: Major adoption of newsletters during pandemic.Current: Substack Recommendations. Always: High quality content worth sharing.
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Meet the next multi-billion $ travel company: @wander.
How do you take on Airbnb?. The $75B travel giant is showing cracks inevitable in marketplaces. So you counterposition with a Natively Integrated product that creates consistently magical experiences, and then you pour fuel on the fire. Meet Wander.
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Full Not Boring Founders podcasts with .@evervault CEO @arcurn . is live. - Data encryption primer.- Rest vs. Field level encryption.- Encrypting the web.- Crypto usecase.- GTM for API businesses.- What the future holds for Evervault. Show links in thread - enjoy!.
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.@merge_api is at the center of the API sweet spot. Big market x solving non-core (but essential) problems for customers. Perfect example of Bezos' "focus on what makes your beer taste better". And its growth is wild: 30X ARR + 2,500 customers. @shensi_ is building a rocketship
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We need more Moonshot companies. @rrana03_ makes the case in today's newsletter:.-History of public/private large scale coordination.-How to make a moonshot.-The state of deeptech. His goal in writing this?. Inspire 1 more moonshot that could change the trajectory of progress
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #22. - Alzheimer's Treatment.- Shape Rotators and wordcels on Generative AI.- ChatGPT.- Diplomatic AI.- Wormholes.- Chose Good Quests. Let's get to it 👇.
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We have 100+ companies actively hiring from the NB Talent Collective. Companies like:.•@tryramp .•@Rippling .•@onequince .•@merge_api .•@layerzero_labs. Looking for your next gig? Always free + 1:1 intros to hirers. Looking for Eng, Product, Growth, BizOps, Sales, etc talent.
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Startup copycats are frustrating but inevitable - if you've built something worth copying it means you're onto something. @swaykaey has obsessed over the ideas behind Swaypay for over a decade. The business launched 3 yrs ago - and 5 copycats just launched in past couple months.
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Happy New Year, not boring people 🎉. Back to it.
We're baaaacckkkkk . 2022 is the year that web3 starts making a big impact on atoms-based challenges like healthcare and climate. It's not about putting x on the blockchain. It's about learning from this weird, real-money simulation we've been running.
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Companies Hiring on the NB Talent Collective:. Notable Series B+ Co's:.💳@tryramp.🤝@Rippling.🐇@hopper.💰@Kickstarter.🌎@Papaya_Global.👕@onequince. Notable Startups.📈@ComposerTrade.❎@merge_api.🥣@snackpass_.🧾@ColumnTax.🧪@ScienceDotIO. 45 other companies - details 👇.
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You know that feeling when you download a new productivity app?. You set it all up, use it religiously for a few days, you're the master of the universe. and then basically never open it up again?. @alicealbrecht thinks she has a solution with her company @recollect_ai.
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Had @saunders3000 on the pod to discuss bringing web3 to food delivery. He founded and worked at Grubhub. He's a food delivery insider. He understands the model is broken and wants to re-align incentives using web3 tech/GTM methodologies. Listen anywhere
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Companies in the Not Boring Talent Collective pay $1000s/yr for access. Because they know talent is their most important asset . And because they are actively hiring. Looking for your next role in tech, strategy, or investing? . Sign up here for free:
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Today's NBF episode features Not Boring friend & founder @WillManidis. Will is the co-founder and CEO of @ScienceDotIO - the Tower of Babel for healthcare information. He is an incredibly thoughtful thinker & operator, and in this podcast we discuss 👇
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👣Bring back trust to the internet👣. That's the mission of @Footprint_HQ. Had @EliWachs and @AlexGrinman on Not Boring Founders to discuss:. - $6M Seed Round.- Epic investor updates.- How to build trust from a cold start.- Footprint's vision. Wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Not Boring launched a new product*. Introducing "The Not Boring Founders Library". •Episode glossary.•Show notes + links.•Timestamped summaries.•Cover art.•Other fun stuff soon!. *Like any self-respecting VC, we call a well-formatted Notion page that we publish "a product"👇.
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A behind the scenes look at what went on @JoinMeow, a crypto-powered yields company, during the crypto lending meltdown. @arvanaghi comes on the pod to discuss:.- Meow's compliance first approach.- Not losing a single $ of customer funds.- Raising a Series A during the UST crash.
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I want to put these rumors to bed once and for all: . Bari Weiss will *not* be writing for Not Boring.
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New Episode of Not Boring Founders:. @samiur1204, co-founder and CEO of @heyday_hq, comes on the pod to discuss their $6.5M seed round led by @sparkcapital, building great products, and his Black Mirror-esque vision of the future. (link in comments).
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At Not Boring, we love brothers that team up to create cool things. @distorcean and @jpalanis are a great example. They are the founders of @StoryDAOxyz - a radical experiment in community world-building changing the way franchise intellectual property is created and owned.
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New pfp who dis?. (Yes, we know it's basically the same color scheme flipped, Times New Roman font, stacking the "not" above the "boring").
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The internet is a beautiful place. We've been publishing the Not Boring Founders Library on @notion for months, as a place to hold:.-podcast episodes.-show notes/links.-cover art. And then one day @mostlynotworkin just reached out and offered to make it pretty and scalable.
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Meet the Not Boring Founders Pod. Casual conversations with founders that Not Boring Capital backs, full of lessons and lols. Kicking it off with a great one: @marketerhire CEO @ChrisToy.
The future of work is flexible. @MarketerHire is growing like a weed by connecting companies with the best marketer for the job at hand. @ChrisToy explains: .- Marketing is the Apex predator.- How to build a marketplace.- Hiring Liquid Super Teams.
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Last week @nexhealth raised a $125M Series C at a $1B valuation. @alfromnexhealth came on Not Boring Founders to discuss the company's past, present and future. A few takeaways below:.
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Rare @packyM 🧵.
2020: DeFi Summer. 2021: Solana Summer. 2022: ???. I think 2022 is going to be ReFi Summer. ReFi is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity to do well by doing good, and Celo is becoming its home. A rare thread because I think everyone needs to know about Celo and ReFi:
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How we've grown not boring:. 1. Worked every day for two years straight, writing over a million words. 2. #2 Product of the Day on ProductHunt. 3. Kept up an active twitter. 4. Got mentioned in this random thread. Thanks, Alex 🍻.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #31. - 4 Day Work Week @loracorkelley.- Freak Trees @margaretc17.- Quantum Computing @dcastelvecchi.- Technological Progress @MaxCRoser.- Necessary Immigration @Noahpinion.- Anti-doomerism @Noahpinion.
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New Not Boring Founder's epi w/.@multiplay3r, the Founder and CEO of @polywork. Peter just raised a $28M Series B lead by @natfriedman and @caffeinatedcap, with participation from the founders of:.- @Instacart.- @stripe.- @lyft.- @clubhouse.- @LatticeHQ. See how 👇
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LayerZero is building critical infrastructure to make a multi-chain future possible. CEO @PrimordialAA thinks that in 10 yrs, most people will not have heard of him but everyone will be using @LayerZero_Labs.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #14. - @patrickc on Progress Studies.- @_HannahRitchie on Optimism.- @EliudKipchoge marathon world record.- Animals are back.- NASA's DART Mission.- The Nuclear Renaissance as imagined by @isabelleboemeke.- @WorldsFairCo posters. Let's get to it 👇
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #27. - Atomic AI.- Johnson's Bluebrint.- Obesity Drugs.- Hydrogen Planes.- Biden's America.- DIMO + Melonfrost
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@notion @mostlynotworkin The result is here: @mostlynotworkin was a joy to work with. super quick & quality work, responsive, and professional. If you've been publishing shitty notion pages online, reach out to them and let them fix you up.
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Not Boring's first ever sponsored deep dive on a public company. @packym couldn't have picked a more complex puzzle for the first one 👀.
Last March, @OscarHealth IPO'd north of $7B. Today, it's hovering around $1.5B, even as membership and revenue soar. Part of the issue? It's building 2 hard, expensive things: insurance business & tech platform. Let's put together the $OSCR Puzzle.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #33. - Superconducting Breakthrough.- US/EU Minerals Alliance.- ERC-4337.- PaLM-E.- Money & Happiness.- BONUS CONTENT
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Hiten does not read Not Boring. I’m 100% sure of it.
Newsletter fatigue is coming. I’m 100% sure of it.
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Twitter is the primary top of funnel source for most Substacks, but there's currently no native way to drive traffic from Twitter --> Substack signup. Unless. your willing to get a bit hacky, like us. We now have a 1-click newsletter signup natively plugged in our Twitter bio
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Dropping 16 more candidates into the talent collective today:. • SWEs from Bolt, Google, Microsoft etc.• Operations Mgr from Klarna.• 2 VP of Growths at major companies.• 2 Sr. Director+ "Strategic Finance" leaders. It's a good time to be a hirer. .
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The longest Not Boring piece ever on a topic that deserves it: Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Luckily, you have some time off coming up.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs will be woven into the fabric of the internet, eliminating a trade-off: your privacy for the right to operate online. They're also key to scaling web3 and opening up real use cases. Aleo makes ZKPs cheaper & more accessible.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #7. - Moderna as a Platform.- Reddit Herpes.- Carbon Capture.- Serena.- Technological Stagnation
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New Not Boring Founders episode with @ginab, co-founder and CEO of @MightyNetworks - which makes creating, growing and monetizing online communities easy. Gina has been building social products for almost two decades and her optimism for the future of community is boundless.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #17. - Cancer Vaccines.- Super Sponge Materials.- Starlink Aviation.- Pillars of Creation.- Lowercarbon's Q>1 Fund.- Bonus: Lex
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So here are two asks:. 1/ Any questions about Not Boring? Hit us in the comments -- we'll answer really anything not financials related (to protect privacy of sponsorship partners). 2/ Want to work with us? DM us here or send an email to dan@notboring(dot)co.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #35. - Deutsch, Ravikant, Ferriss.- ChatGPT Plugins.- The Age of AI (from Bill Gates).- RSV Vaccine.- Cowen on the Banking Crisis.- Succession.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #19. - Meta Proteins.- It's Time to Space.- Nuclear Briefing.- RSV Vaccines.- Stripe Layoffs.- Portrait by Vana. Big week, let's jump in 👇.
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This guy is bored. We’re here to help.
I’m bored with Elon Musk. I’m bored with Jeff Bezos. I’m bored with Mark Zuckerberg. I’m bored hearing nonstop about a few lucky billionaires, who invented nothing, freed no one, and saved no lives, being treated as superhuman celebrities. They’re just rich dudes. Yawn.
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741 Substack Publications recommend Not Boring. Those recommendations have driven 32K subscribers in the past 6 months. No real observable decrease in the quality of subs (open rates, engagement, etc.) so far.
Substack found its killer feature: Recommendations. Almost every writer I talk to on the platform says it's making a difference. The flywheel is spinning. Credit to their team.
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It's an uncertain time to be building in web3, so we thought we'd drop some long-term optimism on you. Today's Not Boring Founders podcast is with @alexrherrity, the cofounder of @animavirtuality - an AR NFT company making the metaverse real.
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Aping into social network theory.
Ok ok ok hear me out: NFTs as a social network. I ran NFTs through @eugenewei's Status-as-a-Service framework, and it checks out. I even made up a thinkboi term for this new kind of social network: the Superverse.
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We had on @arkivedao co-founder & CEO @tmcleod3 on the 1st episode of Season 3 of Not Boring Founders. Topics:. - Starting a decentralized physical museum.- Lessons from being a 5x Founder.- The 3 different types of luck.- Hypes cycles. 👂 wherever u listen to pods
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Why are we going so open book?. 1/ Playing Positive Sum Games. 2/ Give to Get. 3/ The more our audience knows about us, the more we think they'll care.
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In honor of Earth Day, get 100% off your free subscription to the Not Boring Newsletter 🌎🌿.
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Thanks to Easter Weekend and Tax Day, this week’s Not Boring is coming out tomorrow morning. Translation: 🙏🏻🐰💸📧🔜.
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We just launched a few major updates to the Not Boring Talent Collective. 1/ Jobs + Collective now come bundled. 2/ Updated product bundles, new features and lower entry pricing. Bonus: 40+ new, top tier candidates actively looking for their next role.
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Heard it here first!.
.@MainStreet, the 1-year-old startup that finds businesses the money the government owes them, has raised a $60 million Series A led by @SignalFire. Read all about it in the first exclusive Not Boring Funding Announcement 💰.
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Not Boring People 🤝 Not Boring Jobs.
I've spent two years gathering the 108k smartest, most curious people on the internet. Now, you can hire them. I'm launching the Not Boring Talent Collective with Pallet. If you're hiring, sign up to meet over 140 Not Boring readers from TikTok, Stripe, Google, Meta.
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Friend of the pod @loganbartlett was generous enough to let us x-post the most recent @cartoonavatars on the NBF pod feed. On this epi @packy & @benthompson join Logan to discuss their business models, web3 & advice for content creators. 90mins of internet guys just talking shop.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #25. - Fund III Announcement.- Alzheimer's Accelerated Approval.- Cancer Death Rates.- Beiruti Solar Resilience.- Ancient Roman Blemishes.- Bonus: Not Boring Founder epi + the world wide premier of "Shot of Optimism".
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Capital & Taste.
Party Round is now @capitalxyz. You've seen the Party Round Drops on Twiter. Maybe you went to NYC Tech Week. It's all part of the plan: build a media company that monetizes through financial services, focused on founders. Doing it right takes taste.
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A securitization has ~14 service providers, who collectively add ~1% to borrowing costs. @humancapitol saw it first hand as a structured products trader at Citi. Now he’s at @BlockTower to help make the whole thing more efficient. 50-100 bps saved on $14T would be a big win.
When it comes to real-world asset loan securitization. Crypto fixes this. @humancapitol told me why, and I asked him to write it up. This is a Real Use Case™️ in the $14T securitization market that could save borrowers billions of real $$$.
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New Not Boring Capital Investment. Long Nass & Riyaz.
1/ Today we’re launching @BastionPlatform, a new type of infrastructure enabling end-to-end web3 experiences that finally feel like web2. My co-founder @riyazdf & I are also announcing a $25M funding round led by @a16zcrypto to revolutionize how people pay, play, connect & shop.
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What a week for the optimists.
Anduril beats the Primes. US bans the Chinese spy app. Chinese robot opens beer bottle. AI creates an open-source gene editor. Crypto is back (& faster & cheaper) at Stripe. Monumental Labs makes a statue. Self-replicating space economies. What a week for the optimists.
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@rrana03_ @Lux_Capital @ArcadiaScience @generalatlantic @elonmusk So who are the most promising deeptech companies on the frontier of deeptech?. Space: @PrivateerSpace, @AtomosSpace, @Firefly_Space, @VenusAerospace, @epicaerospace, @GoToImpulse, @cognitive_space, @VardaSpace, @InversionSpace, @SpacePerspectiv.
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Drug factories. In space. Read the deepest dive into @VardaSpace in today's Not Boring:.
Today, at 2:19pm PST, Varda will launch a factory into space for the first time in human history. It's the first step in its mission to expand the economic bounds of humankind. Mindblowing as that is, it's also, crucially, economically viable, thanks to cheap SpaceX launches
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This is the most important sponsored deep dive we've written at Not Boring. Early cancer detection saves lives. Ezra is making early detection more affordable and convenient. Fuck cancer.
Early-stage cancer has an 80% survival rate, compared to <20% for late-stage cancer. Early detection might be the cure. Thankfully, cancer screening is on its own Moore's Law-like cost curve thanks in large part to Ezra.
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wagmi sc3nius.
Throughout history, certain time-place combinations have been astonishingly more productive than the rest. We're living through one of them: the world's first internet-native, global-scale Scenius. WAGMI .
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Tres Existentialist.
Remote work, web3, the Great Resignation. It would be foolish to be the generation with the most individual agency and the least intentional thought about what to do with it. Let's wax philosophical.
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4. Coal-to-Nuclear Transition. "The study team identified 157 retired coal plant sites and 237 operating coal plant sites as potential candidates for a coal-to-nuclear transition.". IT'S TIME TO CONVERT
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RAMP PART IV.
"What is it worth to be the company that quite literally makes every company more profitable?". My FOURTH Deep Dive on Ramp started as a piece on Travel, and turned into my first deep dive on AI. TL;DR: Ramp might be in the best position of any B2B company to capitalize on AI.
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This talent pool is legit. Its about a 50% acceptance rate. But we're starting from a pretty curious group of Not Boring readers and community members. Main backgrounds:.• Scaleups wanting to go early stage.• Consulting/IB wanting to operate.• Fintech looking for web3.
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Throwback - back in June 2020, we spun up a pretty landing page for the newsletter, called it a "product" and it hit #2 on @ProductHunt. Subscribers grew 73% in 1 day. Simpler times.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #15. - @benthompson @natfriedman @danielgross on democratized AI.- Nobel Prize Winners.- @apoorva_nyc on Eradicating Malaria.- Ice Bucket Challenge Drug.- @noahpinion of Green Hydrogen. Let's get to it 👇.
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BIG day for @benrollert and the @ComposerTrade team yesterday. Not Boring Founders in the AM.@AcquiredFM LP Show in the PM.
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Dear @packyM. We regret to inform you that we cannot grant you admission to the Not Boring Talent Collective. As you can imagine, this year was highly competitive. Your experience at Breather was noteworthy, but we prioritized candidates from @stripe, @Meta & similar companies.
Last 4 not boring talent collective applications from people at Peloton, Instacart, Meta, and IAC 👀. Love seeing people in comfy jobs itching to build again.
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If you’re at all curious about what’s happening in space, this is the place to start. Then subscribe to @payloadspace to keep up with it in real-time.
The Space Economy. - Launch costs 📉.- Govt and VC investment in space going up 📈.- Objects launched into space 🚀🚀🚀. Analysts expect the Space Economy market size to be as big as $3T by 2040. @payloadspace joins NB for a masterful 11k word deep dive into all things space.
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Composer was the Not Boring Syndicate's first investment. I think we picked a winner. Read @InvestComposer's Manifesto and try not to get too excited about investing's creative future.
What if the experience of managing investing strategies not only didn’t suck, but actually delighted? This white paper details what we think this future will look like:.
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On 4/5, we're raising the monthly fee for companies to $499. Still not charging fees. Let's say over the next 12 months, you hire just 1 person from NB Talent Collective. That'll cost $2,750 or likely less than 3% of the candidates first yr salary. Hire 10 people? Same cost.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #26. - RSV mRNA vaccines.- Obesity in America.- Solar Plunge.- Steel.- Recession Startups.- OFP on NBF. Let's get to it 👇.
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re:collect sounds like one of those products that is too good to be true. You know, maybe in 10-15 years I could see this working, but probably pretty janky today. But @packym actually uses and loves the re:collect product. It is a crucial part of his current writing stack.
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6 - DIMO + Melonfrost. @DIMO_Network is a connected vehicle platform built on Web3 rails. @MelonfrostTM is building the world’s first evolutionary prediction engine. Subscribe to the Not Boring Founders Youtube to catch convos with both founders.
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1 - META PROTEINS. Meta released a model that predicts the structure of 600M proteins. This is about a 3x over AlphaFold's most recent model. Meta gets a lot of heat, but it also puts out a ton of important AI work.
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