Sam Hinkie

And that race, I find a little strange that others think about it that way.

Now, maybe to the extent, maybe if something comes along that's very much

in my wheelhouse that I've looked at not two companies, but 50 companies, and I'm looking for it to be a certain way.

Maybe I'll be that aggressive too on something when I meet someone with a unique approach that I've been looking for, but I think it will be rare.

And I much prefer the sort of getting to know someone.

It doesn't have to be months and months, although that's ideal.

Years and years is even more ideal.

But the notion that 10 minutes in, you turn your brain off.

I think people do that in interviewing.

I think it's a huge mistake.

Huge mistake that you ask a set of open-ended questions and make a set of unconscious judgments two minutes in and call it a day.

That's how we end up with some of the silliness that we do sometimes in hiring where a bunch of unconscious biases creep in.

Have you met anybody that seems to be playing an even longer game than you?

I'll tell you a story that embarrassed me once that's on this frame.

I don't get outgunned there very often because I do really think quite long.

We lived in Houston and we had our first child and we moved into this house my wife and I loved.

We picked it on purpose and we looked at it forever, of course.

For us, she's as picky as I am.

It was literally a seven iron away from the best elementary school in all of Houston on purpose.

And