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Packy McCormick on Spotting and Explaining Future Trends
Manage episode 319950510 series 3262791
Packy’s resilience and work ethic started early, including with a formative experience bringing home a C+ in French. He grew up in a family that valued hard work and honoring commitments without being too hard-charging; an ethos he carried through studying economics and philosophy at Duke, onto an energy trading desk during the 2008 crash, and then into public finance.
Ultimately it was a notable comfort with risk and desire to continue charting his own course that led Packy to leave corporate finance for the NYC startup world in 2013, but not before a brief and ill-fated detour into options trading that would define his venture-focused investing strategy going forward.
Listen in to learn more about Packy’s infamous Bitcoin sell-off and how the pandemic timing played into the launch of Not Boring in this week’s episode.
- (01:46) Let’s start at the beginning
- (03:20) How do you run a FinTech in Ghana?
- (06:15) Clearly a family of ‘underachievers’
- (08:53) Relating to your parents once you are one yourself?
- (13:27) Philly to Durham
- (16:35) Summer 2008 on the energy trading desk
- (18:57) The $2 billion dollar mistake
- (22:59) Just buy and hold
- (25:49) Startup life in NYC
- (28:30) Not Boring is born
- (33:43) Moving Markets
- (41:18) Will retirement be a thing in 20 years?
- (44:22) Invest in things you want to learn about
- (45:37) Optimism as the best long-term return strategy
Eric Satz—entrepreneur, serial investor, lover of hot peppers—is the founder and CEO of Alto. The idea behind Alto was born out of a problem. Eric found a clear need to give people more control over their investments (and investment opportunities) in a simple, streamlined way and created Alto to make these opportunities available to all investors, not just the ultra-wealthy or institutional investors.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Altogether Show with Eric Satz in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It really helps others find the show.
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Manage episode 319950510 series 3262791
Packy’s resilience and work ethic started early, including with a formative experience bringing home a C+ in French. He grew up in a family that valued hard work and honoring commitments without being too hard-charging; an ethos he carried through studying economics and philosophy at Duke, onto an energy trading desk during the 2008 crash, and then into public finance.
Ultimately it was a notable comfort with risk and desire to continue charting his own course that led Packy to leave corporate finance for the NYC startup world in 2013, but not before a brief and ill-fated detour into options trading that would define his venture-focused investing strategy going forward.
Listen in to learn more about Packy’s infamous Bitcoin sell-off and how the pandemic timing played into the launch of Not Boring in this week’s episode.
- (01:46) Let’s start at the beginning
- (03:20) How do you run a FinTech in Ghana?
- (06:15) Clearly a family of ‘underachievers’
- (08:53) Relating to your parents once you are one yourself?
- (13:27) Philly to Durham
- (16:35) Summer 2008 on the energy trading desk
- (18:57) The $2 billion dollar mistake
- (22:59) Just buy and hold
- (25:49) Startup life in NYC
- (28:30) Not Boring is born
- (33:43) Moving Markets
- (41:18) Will retirement be a thing in 20 years?
- (44:22) Invest in things you want to learn about
- (45:37) Optimism as the best long-term return strategy
Eric Satz—entrepreneur, serial investor, lover of hot peppers—is the founder and CEO of Alto. The idea behind Alto was born out of a problem. Eric found a clear need to give people more control over their investments (and investment opportunities) in a simple, streamlined way and created Alto to make these opportunities available to all investors, not just the ultra-wealthy or institutional investors.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Altogether Show with Eric Satz in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It really helps others find the show.
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