Sahil Bloom

I mean, if I have one reflection on startup investing, I'm by no means some savant at this.

I've probably invested in 100 companies, but I have no good frameworks.

I'm not...

I'm not proclaiming myself to be good, but I have had a few lucky shots.

And the lucky shots are almost entirely because all I focused on was the founder, not the idea.

When I focus on the idea, honestly, I think I'm wrong 10 out of 10 times.

I'm like, oh, but this idea is so great, whatever.

Because the business ends up being something different than whatever the original idea is.

So I'm better off just focusing on who is an absolute killer

founder who is going to be a talent magnet, who's going to be able to attract the best quality people, those people end up finding some idea that really works.

I feel like I've read a few things recently of like,

people doing this like I think like maybe Josh Kushner was one of them at Thrive who is like exceptional at just sort of like staying in touch with people that like aren't really building anything right now but it's sort of just in the vein of like someone that I want to work with like I just I just like I want to I want to spend time I want to find things to work on with this person so I'm just gonna like hang around the hoop and

and be in the room when the thing happens so that I can be one of those calls.

And I think it applies to people that you want to build things with or invest in or whatever that might be.

But I like that framing.

Yeah, hang around the hoop was one of my favorites from like private equity days of like you'd put in a bid on a company knowing that you weren't going to like be the lead bidder, but you just like hang around the hoop so that if it doesn't work out with the lead bidder, you're like standing there waiting for the rebound.

Totally.

Probably applies to the dating market too.

I definitely can't speak to that one, but...

That is your year in review.