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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Packy McCormick Not Boring Substack Hits $50k Revenue, 25k Subs

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Packy is the founder of Not Boring, a weekly newsletter covering strategy and finance through the stories of companies big and small. After starting his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Packy spent six years as the NYC GM and VP, Experience at Breather.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you comfortable sharing how much revenue you did your first year writing?

0:03.6

I am if I knew the number.

0:05.7

I've been monetizing since call it late August, early September.

0:13.0

Okay.

0:13.2

So it'll be three months of monetization.

0:15.9

And I would imagine it somewhere around 50,000 or so.

0:19.3

So it's a good run rate.

0:22.9

You are listening to Conversations with Nathan Latka. Now, if you're hearing this, it means

0:28.6

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0:36.6

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0:41.1

Right now, you're only hearing partial interviews. And you'll get interviews three weeks earlier

0:46.8

from founders, thinkers, and people I find interesting. Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took

0:53.7

Zoom public.

0:55.0

We got to grow faster.

0:56.0

Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

0:59.0

Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

1:02.0

When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.

1:05.0

Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

1:15.2

We want to see a real pervasive data culture, and then the rest flows behind that.

1:19.5

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1:24.1

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1:28.3

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