Sam Hinkie

How have you thought about shaping, I'll call it the game.

You're in a new game now, and I think your interest is in spending as much time as humanly possible with the sort of exceptional people that we've outlined in a number of different ways.

But that's hard work.

Like there's a lot of people out there, gotta kiss a lot of frogs typically in a process like this.

You mentioned 500 deals down to maybe five investments, something like this.

How do you think about designing the game itself into which you are now placing yourself for the next big chapter of your career?

What are you optimizing for?

What are the rules of that game that you're trying to make different than the normal way things are done that you observed in the venture ecosystem when you stepped into it?

For sure, the way I thought about it was, could you design a world where you could spend nearly all your time with amazing people?

That's one.

And where you could get leverage on seeing around the bend a little bit, that mattered to me.

And where patience and temperament are rewarded.

All three of those things mattered, but they matter because I believe those are areas to spend time in.

And they're areas I enjoy spending time in, that I sort of take energy from.

So I love being around incredible people.

That ought to be obvious.

I'm a sucker for the old sort of Netflix parlance of stunning colleagues.

I thought about, could you design something where 70 or 80 or 90% of your time were just those people?

By the way, at 87 Capital, I can very much do that in that anyone I hire into the firm is a part of that.

And any entrepreneur I choose to spend time with is a part of that.