"Age of Miracles"

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. Read the full post at Not Boring --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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. Read the full piece at Not Boring.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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).  Read the full post at Not Boring. Give your answer and join the conversation on Twitter.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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. Read the full post at Not Boring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 You can read the full post at Not Boring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

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 Read the full post at Not Boring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Discover Lithic, formerly Privacy.com, a card issuing company that has seen remarkable success with its API-driven infrastructure. Explore Lithic's pivot under the framework of 'The Amazon Tax' by Ben Thompson. Dive into their high fixed costs, primitive-building strategy, and increasing returns to scale. Learn about embedded finance and how Lithic's API enables direct payments and real-time card generation. Also, explore the card program services of Lithic, Stripe, Galileo, and Marquette.

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message