The Real Reason You Should Do Business With Friends (If You Do It Right)

Описание: Have you been warned that doing business with friends will ruin everything?

This episode challenges one of the most repeated pieces of bad advice in entrepreneurship. Rob Stolker opens up about building successful companies with lifelong friends, surviving a ten-year lawsuit with someone who was never a friend, and why those two experiences taught him opposite lessons.

Steven and Todd share how their partnership didn’t start as a friendship but became a brotherhood over time, and why that evolution gave them a massive competitive advantage. They dig into the uncomfortable conversations most friends avoid, the money talks that feel awkward but are necessary, and the costly mistake they made when they protected a friendship at the expense of the business.

This isn’t a feel-good conversation about friendship. It’s a real discussion about trust, tension, risk, and what actually makes partnerships work when emotions are involved.


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

How to tell the difference between a real friendship and a convenient partnership
How to protect both the business and the friendship at the same time
How to have hard conversations with friends before they cost you money
How to use friendship to reduce stress instead of increasing it
How to avoid the silent mistakes that quietly destroy partnerships



QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Should you really avoid doing business with friends?
Why do friendships sometimes make partnerships stronger instead of weaker?
What conversations do friends avoid that later destroy the business?
How does friendship change conflict, criticism, and competition?
What happens when you protect the friendship instead of the partnership?

Listen now, and learn how to strengthen your partnership.
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