Sam Hinkie

And I was like, Oh, that's super interesting.

A week or two passes and there's another blog post.

And by noon, four or five people have sent it to me.

And I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is amazing.

massively good.

And the primitives you would have to understand to do this kind of work, not to mention a loan are massive.

Another week or two passes.

And here comes another blog post.

And by now I've got it like hooked into an RSS feeder back then.

I read it quickly and I just printed it out and walked down to Daryl Morey's office.

And I said, I'm about to hire this guy.

I haven't met him yet, but I'm about to hire him today.

And he said, why?

And I printed off what he had done.

And he said, I get it.

Let me know how it goes.

The truth is we did real interviewing and we spent a bunch of time with him over many, many weeks to try to understand him better.

We did hire him based on that.

I like processes where you hire people, where you run a tournament, where there's an actual tournament.

But he was the number one seed in the tournament, to be clear, based on his prior record and that that was massively influential for how we would think about him.