"Age of Miracles"

ScienceIO decodes the language of medicine to unlock the full potential of healthcare data. Its industry-leading clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) platform structures data in real-time to enable search, analysis, and insight generation. 

Not Boring Capital invested in ScienceIO's $8M seed round, and in this episode, I'll explain what they do and why I invested, covering: 

You can read the full post at Not Boring.

Ayush Jaiswal is the founder and CEO of Pesto, a Not Boring portfolio company that connects companies with the most valuable resource in the world: engineers. 

Ayush founded Pesto because he realized that remote was coming even before COVID, and that companies working anywhere meant that they could hire the best talent from anywhere. He also saw that in India, his home country, some of his friends who were talented engineers were making a fraction of what they could working for a western tech company. Pesto fixes that, identifying top engineers globally, starting in India, training them on soft skills, and matching them with higher-paying tech jobs. And it's working -- the average Pesto developer makes 4x what they made before Pesto and hiring companies come back to hire as many as 12 (and soon 30) Pesto developers. 

We discuss: 

 - What remote will look like

 - How to identify top engineers

 - Expanding into web3 

 - Why Pesto has focused on growing within existing clients 

 - How to hire Pesto engineers

Listen, or if you just want to hire an engineer right now, go check out Pesto to see profiles of available developers today: Try Pesto.

Nick Greenawalt is the co-founder of Wanderers. I've become obsessed with Wanderers since discovering it a couple of weeks ago. The current batch of 8,888 NFTs are 8 second animations of space ships hyperdriving through space at warp speed, soundtracked by spacey music. That's just part one of Phase I of the Wanderers master plan. Next up: every Wanderer holder gets a free planet NFT dropped in their wallets. Beyond that await avatars, mysteries to solve, and a big story to tell. There's also a thriving Discord that's the second thing I check every morning after Twitter.

Wanderers has resonated with me more than any NFT project to date, and after talking to Nick, I'm only more excited about what's in store. After you listen, I think you'll understand why. 

Seeing is believing, though. Check Wanderers out on OpenSea and join the Discord to experience it for yourself.  

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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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: 

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

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:

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

Read the full piece at Not Boring. 

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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Give your answer and join the conversation on Twitter. 

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.

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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:

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 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: 

You can read the full post at Not Boring.