Play Long Games With Good People
October 20, 2025·0 comments·zg
I got asked, “It seems like you are surrounded by extremely high quality people. I know that’s not by accident. So yes, this is a compliment first, but also - how? I’m curious.”
It came up while another business professional and I were talking company culture, and this was relative to my primary job (at Sunpointe), and I answered with a discussion on why “playing long games with good people” is so important to me.
After the conversation ended, I wrote that sentence down. I haven’t precisely reflected on it here before. This is long overdue.
In that specific talk, I was talking about how many years I knew my now business partner, Ben Tuscai, before we had the chance to start officially collaborating. I simultaneously can believe and can’t believe that out of 10 years of knowing each other we only started working together about 3 years ago.
I long had a sense of wanting for it to happen, but you can’t force things. All you can do is wait for the stars to align. That’s a patient approach. Sometimes it’s painful, and occasionally it’s frustrating. But you rely on the potential and optionality, not the always shifting and uncontrollable opportunity set life hands you.
What the person who was asking me about it sensed but couldn’t have known, is that this lesson has been reinforced in my mind over years now.
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