Sam Hinkie
@samhinkie
Followers
55,788
Following
1,704
Media
11
Statuses
249
Husband. Dad. Leader. Reader. Founder of @87capital . Formerly a bunch of things, including President & GM of the Philadelphia 76ers.
Joined July 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Claudia Sheinbaum
• 446131 Tweets
BB X LISA
• 181676 Tweets
増山さん
• 153854 Tweets
増山江威子さん
• 143989 Tweets
ルパン三世
• 109170 Tweets
峰不二子
• 107469 Tweets
#CDTVライブライブ
• 59892 Tweets
NORAWIT and KND
• 48221 Tweets
エミリエ
• 47451 Tweets
TOYOTA GOOD DEAL X MEW
• 32121 Tweets
音楽の日
• 31765 Tweets
不二子ちゃん
• 24812 Tweets
ベンチマーク
• 24174 Tweets
ゲリラ豪雨
• 23486 Tweets
Emilie
• 22784 Tweets
#ISSUE_CONNECT_祝地上波
• 20864 Tweets
Alpine
• 19021 Tweets
しゅごキャラ
• 18853 Tweets
더보이즈
• 18845 Tweets
ピノコニー
• 16962 Tweets
Ocon
• 16055 Tweets
IS:SUE
• 15492 Tweets
God Kabir Prakat Diwas 22June
• 11833 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
1/ I haven't said much publicly about
@87capital
. This conversation with
@patrick_oshag
provides some color.
Eighty-Seven Capital's new website provides a bit more.
My conversation with the great
@samhinkie
on finding your people.
We discuss:
- compounding capital, wisdom and trust
- following breadcrumbs
- playing the long game
- his new firm, Eighty-Seven Capital
An all time favorite. Enjoy!
38
53
786
23
40
442
I love it when a plan comes together.
336
6K
18K
I got you
See you in NOLA
Joel Embiid
#NBAVote
I wonder who
@samhinkie
is gonna vote for All Star.. Gotta do it for the culture
Joel Embiid
#NBAVote
101
8K
7K
251
13K
12K
There aren't enough cans of Crisco in the world.
City deserves one.
Go Birds.
283
5K
10K
*Almost* 40 years of NBA Finals appearances in eight words: Magic, Bird, Jordan, Hakeem, Shaq, Duncan, Kobe, LeBron.
207
1K
5K
Real talk.
So good.
92
513
2K
ideas > hairline
My conversation with
@samhinkie
on
-the long view
-applied innovation
-data science, machine learning
-his time at the Rockets, remaking the 76ers
-the importance of hiring and recruiting
-the limits of being contrarian
This one was very fun
35
234
1K
68
253
2K
Here’s a list of side projects I often think about—
Interested in collaborating on one of these topics?
115
202
2K
😍this team
Bonzi trade,Yao's foot,Carl's knee? Next man up
Bobby Jackson,~41 yr old Deke,Mike Harris on a 10-day
Scola 18-0 as starter at PF
37
183
1K
Go Birds
The
#Eagles
have (by far) the most games started by Black QB’s in NFL History, at 369. The next closest team is the
#Titans
.
These QBs include Jalen Hurts, Randall Cunningham, Donovan McNabb, Mike Vick, Rodney Peete, & more.
#SuperBowlLVII
will make it 370.
#BlackHistoryMonth
155
2K
8K
16
165
1K
Vince Rozman is incredible.
He’s also a hidden gem because he deflects credit so graciously.
He’s *great*
-with people
-at evaluating talent
-at systems
-as a communicator
The Thunder made a brilliant hire. At some point soon someone really smart is going to hand him the keys.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are hiring Philadelphia 76ers executive Vince Rozman in scouting as VP of Identification and Intelligence, sources tell ESPN. Rozman worked his way up in Philadelphia from intern to a VP role over 15-plus years.
131
456
6K
22
81
876
Love helping ambitious entrepreneurs tackling hard problems with unique approaches. If that’s you, shoot me a note.
Great read on
@samhinkie
, who by the way is hanging in our backyard, great opportunity for entrepreneurs who want his input.
3
10
104
56
70
856
1 | Writing this from a Starbucks in Palo Alto, CA. It’s 5 blocks from our house. My wife and I brought our boys here for this next chapter.
99
273
815
Sachin's genius is making the complex appear simple (effortlessly) while being right (a lot).
He’s also a big tent kind of leader with real principles and an enormous heart.
Minnesota got a great one.
New article:
How Sachin Gupta, the Timberwolves new head of basketball operations, taught me that leadership doesn’t always look like we think it does.
7
78
396
18
90
730
what a legend
Me voy feliz, me voy orgulloso pero por sobre todas las cosas, me voy en paz.
Gracias por todo.
2K
9K
123K
24
23
646
10| In the meantime, if you read anything good, send it my way.
193
137
588
Sometimes it falls to you to chop wood you'll never burn.
Look at Robert Caro chop.
Robert A. Caro on the secrets revealed while researching the life of President Lyndon B. Johnson:
9
54
125
58
86
560
Excited for the world to experience what it's like to sit at the knee of Ben Falk and his brilliant basketball mind.
Announcing my new project, Cleaning the Glass: writing about basketball from my view as a former NBA executive.
11
68
424
38
85
505
Misunderstanding gets smoked out of its foxhole with writing like this. Nice job,
@BenedictEvans
.
Machine Learning is infinite interns.
42
49
496
we built a remote control time machine transformer telescope as big as a tennis court and slung it a million miles from earth
This James Webb Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of eight days at the beginning of May and provides he best preview of next week's first full-color images:
14
65
485
42
31
493
Mike Zarren is really, really good at his job.
Wouldn't underestimate him in his next one.
James Harden, Mike D’Antoni, and Daryl Morey seem made for each other, and that’s because they needed each other
1
14
77
47
102
441
9 | …watch tons of basketball, and soak up all that I can. Oh, and snowboard. For sure snowboard.
16
159
409
🐐
My conversation with the great
@bgurley
on:
- increasing returns in the internet era
- marketplace businesses
- user generated content
- usage yield on world's assets
- why today's VC landscape is without precedent
- crafting a career
So fun
19
81
718
48
19
387
8 | While I wait to see what’s next for us, I’ll teach a little (at Stanford), keep talking to the long list of people I can learn from,…
30
131
365
7 | My hope is to learn even more about how what’s happening here will impact the basketball world—it’s impacting most everything else.
10
107
340
First time I met Kevin Kwok I (finally) asked him a good question about 8:45 one night. At 2 a.m. I ran out of paper. Here’s a glimpse.
Here's my conversation with
@kevinakwok
.
Kevin has a mind on fire!
Podcast themes:
▶️ A/B testing cities in China
▶️ Viral loops + network effects
▶️ Why we have democracies in countries and dictators in companies
🎤 🎤 🎤
2
9
120
25
23
328
5 | I’ve always been focused on learning as fast as I can & figuring out how I can do things better. So a period like this felt super rare.
6
93
319
2/
@87capital
is supported by a small set of institutions, foundations, and great friends. Fewer, deeper relationships.
And I look forward to being *a little* more active on Twitter. As I write this, I'm at 76 lifetime tweets.
32
12
322
apparently if you want to go fast or far, go together
that's not as catchy
Sawfly larvae increase their movement speed by using each other as a conveyor belt, a formation known as a rolling swarm.
via mirra_whale/IG
133
2K
10K
13
24
311
3 | …backpacked around the world—I surely would have snowboarded more.
6
104
307
4 | But we’re parents, so we’re here planting seeds for tomorrow. Especially their tomorrow.
7
87
306
2 | The more I thought about it, the more obvious it became that a sort of gap year here was right. If we were younger, maybe we’d have…
6
96
296
6 | And there may be no better place on the planet to learn right now than right here.
7
96
293
“It's the belief that things are more important than you, and that they can outlive you, and that your work matters. And those are sort of, I think, essential, almost philosophical or religious ideas. It's faith based. Which is, I'm going to devote my whole life to something that
The Power Broker is perhaps the most important and complete explanation of how cities are formed, how neighborhoods are destroyed, bridges are erected, roads are laid down, parks are designed. fortunes are made, lives are ruined, and power is amassed. 1/2
8
59
405
13
16
237
Robert Caro, 81: “animated by a holy fire.”
On Power is his latest. A life’s work sounds like this. First 81 to retweet gets a free copy.
Acclaimed author Robert A. Caro reflects on the evolution and workings of political power—for good and for ill.
0
29
44
44
157
201
Fewer, deeper relationships.
Buffett’s punchcard idea becomes much more interesting if you replace stocks or companies with people
Asking “might this person be one of the 20 that I devote myself to working with and supporting for the rest of my life?” is very powerful
28
41
638
20
5
186
Eugene Wei
@eugenewei
is our own Meriwether Lewis for social. Holy cow this is good.
We would have a better understanding of many social networks if we regarded them as Status as a Service (SaaS) businesses.
Not all network effects work the same way. Status is a powerful motivator but inherently volatile.
54
433
2K
17
15
162
Opal's C1 camera is legit.
Dead simple to use.
Software keeps improving.
And built like a, well, a tank.
16
23
154
We're all the beneficiaries of Patrick's bottomless well of curiosity, optimism, and grace.
I’ll likely do the podcast the rest of my life in some form
The reason is that I occasionally get to have conversations like this one
I listened again this morning on a drive and it is packed with more good advice than just about any conversation I can recall, recorded or not
25
29
474
8
6
156
A warrior.
He hated the NBA. The NBA's best players loved him.
I spoke with Vassilis Spanoulis about Luka, Giannis and how someone who lasted one NBA season inspired the future of the league:
11
81
399
10
9
156
She's better in her second language than I am in my first. Less twang, too.
3/
@samhinkie
:
“Delayed gratification is underrated”
In the era of now now now, playing the long game wins – be willing to sacrifice short term title/salary/etc. in favor of learning and longer-term life/career trajectory.
2
14
118
10
6
145
So happy for you all.
Best to write down the name Howard Akumiah somewhere. He's not done.
1/ I’m thrilled to share that Betty Labs has been acquired by
@Spotify
! Joining forces will allow us to continue executing on our vision of building the ultimate destination for community-specific conversations and contribute to the future of audio
37
81
548
8
8
141
🎄
I made a podcast about the life of Jesus.
It’s available in your podcast app now!
51
34
420
7
2
124
.
@patio11
is 1 of 1.
“Abundance is the only cure for scarcity, ever. Everything else merely _allocates_ scarcity.”
Read him to learn writing, logic, operations, economics, government, tech, agency, effectiveness, humanity, humility, humor,…
Last year, a group of geeks convened on Discord in response to a Twitter thread about California’s woes with the vaccine rollout. They very quickly found themselves running a critical piece of national public health infrastructure.
Here is our story:
17
138
656
5
8
115
1. If you care about Asia, the future, your company, or your company's future in Asia — I'd call Claire.
2. Bring sticky notes.
My conversation with
@ClaireThielke
, head of Hines real estate in Asia.
We discuss:
- using patterns across cities to spot investment opps.
- new RE forms
- East v west
- “tomorrow time”
@Rich_Barton
said in our episode “I think she’s a superhuman.”
29
22
196
4
6
104
It is excellent. Worth lots and lots of time.
I rarely find a new podcast that I like
But since I’ve gotten used to David’s style on
@FoundersPodcast
, I find myself listening almost every day
If you want a sense of what it’s like, I recommend the episode on Estée Lauder. What a badass she was
10
9
174
18
6
98
“If you act like you have all the answers, your team will too. But if they see you trying things, taking accountability when you screw them up, and getting back up to do it again…they will do that too.”
Wrote this over the break. How to get better at getting better...and why it's even more important than you might expect.
9
21
218
2
14
100
Dwarkesh is a national treasure
New post: Will scaling work?
This is the crux in arguments about AI timelines.
In order to think through my own position, I wrote the post as a debate between a skeptic and a believer.
Skeptic point 1:
Data bottlenecks won't be clearer by self-play/synthetic data:
33
104
800
6
2
90
"Isn't it wonderful that you can have lifetime relationships with people and you really enjoy those relationships and they're filled with respect? And trust! It's wonderful."
—
h/t
@Post_Market
Legend, John Malone 🐐💎, in an hour-long video pod w/ Aryeh Bourkoff (TMT i-banker extraordinaire).
Take a trip through JM’s professional history (including when he & Buffett couldn’t understand how this kid Bill Gates’ little business had a moat).😱
1/
2
4
46
4
5
89
Good stuff, Will, and on a good day.
I’ve never been religiously observant, but this is a really good read on Christmas Eve in 2020🎄✨
2
4
43
10
4
86
Fun Game 7 story in here, but it left out how Shane, his wife, and friends celebrated winning an NBA championship at…Denny’s. A tradition they continued (together) since winning the Final Four that began w/ a state title in HS as a Sr. and a Jr. and a So.
Shane Battier: Winner.
Today,
@GuptaRK22
hosts
@ShaneBattier
for a conversation on drive, data, performance, team, coaching, and more
Michael Lewis called Shane the “no stats all star,” because everywhere Shane went, the team won
Ravi pulls out why that was possible
Enjoy!
10
11
127
5
7
78
I never met Bill Campbell.
I'd have ❤️ Bill Campbell.
I'm sure of it.
Sam Hinkie: "Doesn't matter what you say. It matters what they hear, and it matters how they feel. That's not a way to manipulate someone. It's a way to deeply understand their set of problems..."
Bill Campbell's superpower was emotional intelligence.
3
9
81
6
6
80
The force is strong with this one.
I am excited to share that I am joining
@Benchmark
as a Principal alongside
@sarahtavel
,
@peterfenton
,
@milesgrimshaw
,
@ericvishria
,
@chetanp
, and the rest of the Benchmark team.
252
18
2K
5
3
78
@paulg
Charlie Munger agrees
Real estate advice from Munger:
“Lush landscaping, that is what sells. You spend money on trees, and you get back triple.”
11
31
350
1
4
80
2,851 Miles by
@bgurley
from the
@allinsummit
now available in full on
@x
(0:00) 2,851 Miles
(24:44) In conversation with
@bgurley
268
2K
7K
3
5
76
I don't know what'll come of this.
But if it's anything like what regularly comes out of Ravi's mouth, it's a must follow. He's succinct and grounded and super duper gifted.
~10 years on twitter. First tweet today. Let's see how this goes.
238
52
4K
7
2
72
in·dom·i·ta·ble
adjective
impossible to subdue or defeat
"a woman of indomitable spirit"
Thrilled to announce
@WithOtter
's $23M Series A, led by
@jesskah
and
@Alfred_Lin
at
@sequoia
! We're building childcare that feels like family and we're actively hiring! Read more at
30
23
297
10
2
72
9
0
71
Super attractive opportunity to work with Dan — worth serious consideration. DM him (or me).
I’m hiring a full-time 1) TypeScript / React engineer and 2) mobile engineer. DMs are open!
18
34
277
10
2
60
“We decry current machine intelligence as cheap tricks, but perhaps our own intelligence is just the emergent combination of a bunch of cheap tricks.”
Sam Altman
Machine intelligence, part 1
└
6
2
53
When Codex fails like this the kind of thing you can do [casually clicks delete] is you can just try again. There's no punishment for getting it wrong.
“Technologies succeed when they become so cheap you can waste them on minor things that then become necessities." — Kevin Kelly
This is the most ludicrous tech demo I’ve seen since the Twilio demo.
11
70
535
7
2
52
What Amplitude has become is so, so impressive.
Years ago they figured out "your digital product *is* your product" & built tools to make it better.
Now everyone needs those tools.
Much respect.
25
33
546
8
3
50
@lachygroom
~ not exactly, but close enough ~
Big History. 48 half-hour lectures.
on-ramps:
•large, 400 page book
└
•medium, 5,000 word article
└
•small, 20 min video c/o
@billwurtz
└
2
2
43
for the right person, this might be the opportunity of a lifetime
Devs: If you're doing sneaker twitter work and find it boring/repetitive, consider joining
@scoutapp_ai
. I'm biased, but it's all-around the best place to work on ST.
Here’s why 👇
16
12
98
1
4
42
“The thing is true, whether or not you say it. There is a most important thing, whether or not you say it.”
My conversation with
@GuptaRK22
Our whole conversation is about focus and the value of keeping the main thing the main thing
This is a business discussion, but also a life discussion, with someone that’s thought a lot about both
Enjoy!
11
10
167
2
4
37
@manuginobili
@AcquiredFM
For sure.
@djrosent
and
@gilbert
are great fun. Maybe give
@FoundersPodcast
a try.
3
1
32