Find Your People

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[00:03:48] – (First question) – Conducting a good interview

[00:05:58] – Drilling into topics to learn more about people

[00:07:49] – What percentage of people are actually worth spending time with for Sam

[00:09:29] – People who think in a strange way that intrigues him

[00:10:36] – Interest in digital breadcrumbs and how to follow them

[00:14:02] – Building context around founders vs analyzing their pitch decks

[00:17:20] – A real-world example of the bread crumb strategy, Houston Rockets GM

[00:21:25] – How successful people evolve with the erosion of their pre-established edge

[00:23:07] – Shifting to a people-first focus

[00:24:50] – Creating an atmosphere that attracts the best talent

[00:26:50] – Tailoring things to someone else’s incentive structure

[00:28:24] – Most amazing thing someone did in the early days of working with Sam

[00:30:18] – Lessons from sports that he carries with him

[00:32:31] – Exceptions to relationships being a key to success

[00:33:03] – Have people gone soft?

[00:34:58] – Knowing whether founders are on the right path

[00:36:07] – Avoiding transactional type people

[00:37:04] – Most effective lessons he brought to sports from the investing world

[00:40:01] – Ideas from the sports world he is bringing to the investing world

[00:44:11] – How the size of the team can impact the success of the team

[00:45:48] – Designing the game for himself

[00:50:33] – Lessons learned from watching them build trust

[00:52:26] – Market areas that have his attention

[00:54:13] – Fascination into API’s

[00:58:05] – Keeping your focus on your expertise

[00:59:45] – Strangest things he’s seen in early-stage investing

[01:01:26] – Playing the long game

[01:04:29] – Calling it Eighty-Seven Capital

[01:05:49] – Increasing his chance at a GM job

[01:06:52] – What can Caro teach us about the long game

[01:08:26] – Lessons of power

[01:10:39] – Quality in leaders he respects most

[01:12:58] – The power of breadcrumbs and how people can start to lay them out