That "intentional" thing you clocked - it's actually the defining trait of the best long-game players in VC. Most people think board seats are just prestige collecting. They're not. They're relationship infrastructure. Had a mentor once tell me: "Every seat at a table is a decade-long bet, not a title." Took me years to really get that. Paterson is a textbook case of this - started as a cold-call broker in '85, became Canada's #1 tech banker at Midland Walwyn, then basically rebuilt Yorkton Securities from a mining-focused shop into a serious tech/media powerhouse. Each move stacked on the last, nothing random about it. His site actually breaks this down pretty well: official resource worth bookmarking if you track founders-turned-capital-allocators. The board seat pattern especially makes sense once you read it in sequence.