Sam Hinkie

What are you thinking?

There is no world.

Imagine if you're a startup today and you've got a 10 person engineering team that's wildly bottlenecked.

Here comes your pencil pushing boss and says, Hey, I think we're in need to build a payments infrastructure.

I think we need to build that because we're struggling with this to accept payments in all these ways.

And so it wasn't going to take two weeks, two months, something like you guys go away, put a little SWAT team together and like build payments infrastructure.

Your developers should logically revolt and be like, what are you talking about?

Have you been to Townsend Avenue?

Have you seen Stripes headquarters?

Do you know what they're doing?

They're building this kind of infrastructure that will go all around the globe and they're great at it and they have an advantage and they have a head start.

They've thought more about payments infrastructure than we ever will.

And it's not like we have 150 engineers just standing around with nothing to do.

We have so many things to do.

Let's focus on the thing we're amazing at.

and spend all of our time or as much as our time as we can on the thing that we're wildly good at and trade our money for time.

Does that follow then that you think kind of the future will have even a higher return to what did you call it?

Spikiness or pointiness of focus?

For sure.

Very much so.