Life is long, you think, there is time to kill, and then one day you find ten years have got behind you. You run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking—and you are older. That is the picture Fredd Kambo, the managing director of ARCH Emerging Partners, Cold Chain Fund, sketches as he talks about his childhood dream: To be a basketball star. Like Magic Johnson. But then the knees gave way. The ankles tore.
“There were younger, faster guys who were killing me,” he says.