Sam Hinkie - Find Your People - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
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The best operators have a relentless focus on leverage, finding ways to multiply their impact rather than just working harder. But here's what I see happening in finance teams everywhere. Brilliant people getting buried in expense management busy work. If you think about it, you become a finance leader because you love strategic work. Modeling scenarios, optimizing capital allocation, finding the insights that actually move the business forward. But instead, you're chasing receipts and categorizing transactions. It's the opposite of leverage. This is exactly why I'm so bullish on what the team
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That's kind of you to say. I'm this weird dichotomy on a whole bunch of areas, one of which is at some level I don't really value interviewing all that much and I don't really value the output you get out of interviews. Yet at the same time, I do try to do it quite differently than others. Think in a bunch of ways you get weird signal out of interviewing and so you have to be careful. I'm mostly trying to understand how it is you learn, how it is you perceive the world, and where you sort of think the edges are. Oftentimes, I'm not particularly good, particularly on a first interview at being
One of the things that each of the people mentioned to me was that they would say something, and then you would ask some clarifying question on that thing. And then just, like you said, keep on drilling downwards. What are the most interesting things you've seen revealed when you've done that with people in the past? Is it just finding where the depth is or not finding it, which, of course, would sounds like it would be a good thing if you can't find the bottom? What else have you learned about that sort of probing process, and why do you think more people don't do it? That's maybe the strange
I wish I could say this was, like, hyper thoughtful, and I had designed some winning system. It's not clear to me at all. I'm actually just curious. And I'm actually curious to learn. And I usually take the approach I can learn something from anyone. Whoever's sitting across the table for me is getting my utmost attention. And I suspect I can learn something that they know about the world. And I'm not just trying to evaluate them. I'm trying to learn at the same time. And so I'll sort of push in those areas. It seems obvious to me, you should try to find things that they want to talk about. I
You've obviously met a ton of people across domains and fields. What percentage of people do you think have the quality I don't know what to call the quality, but the quality th
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