Sam Hinkie

In particular, one of the books, his second book in a series is called Means of Ascent.

And in that book, which may be a little timely as of now, in that book, one candidate wins a little tiny election, seems tiny in retrospect, in 1948.

He wins by 87 votes and launches himself to the presidency.

The other candidate loses by 87 votes, but effectively wins back his life's work that he had been compounding over a long period of time.

and his family.

And a lot of what I try to talk to founders about is that we're looking for winners.

And that's not just who won.

So much of it depends on what you're counting.

That notion, I very much want to be part of the ethos of the firm I'm building, which feels very entrepreneurial to me.

To be fair, it's quite small and I'm a solo GP.

And these days it's a $50 million fund, this first one.

And I suspect it might be quite small for quite a long period of time because I prefer it that way.

There's a particular way that I want to do it.

And there's a particular set of axioms that I'm leaning into that I'm wildly confident, by the way, will be successful.

And I'm confident will be the kind of thing that I want to spend decades on because it's uniquely me in a bunch of ways and uniquely my experiences.

It makes me super excited to be doing it.

What was the thing that you did along the path ultimately to a GM job that increased your odds of ultimately getting one of those jobs the most?

Where did you pick up the most probability points on that journey?

thought hard about what other people are trying to accomplish.

And I tried to shape my language in a way they could hear it.