Most business cards die in a drawer within a week, but a few end up pinned to a corkboard where someone sees them every day. The difference isn’t the card stock, it’s whether the person behind it made themselves worth remembering in the room. That’s SuperModel at work, the presence habit of dressing deliberately, taking real notes, and giving someone a reason to place you above the noise of a normal meeting.
A card pinned at a place like Capital Factory, where founders and operators pass a bulletin board daily, gets seen dozens of times a month by accident. Larry’s point is that the card is just the last three seconds of an impression that started the moment you walked in the door. If the meeting itself was forgettable, no amount of nice card stock saves it from the trash.
If the meeting was memorable and the follow-up was useful, the card becomes a small, physical reminder that keeps working after you’ve left the room. This ties back to his karma habit too, people keep cards from those who gave them something, an intro, an answer, a favor, not just a pitch.
A pinned card is also free advertising every time someone else glances at that board and asks who you are. Larry treats a corkboard the same way he treats a referral, cheap distribution he didn’t have to build himself.
That’s the same instinct behind External API, plugging into a wall, a room, or a network that already gets foot traffic instead of building your own audience from zero. Earn the pin, and the card keeps introducing you long after the handshake is over.
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