Choose business partners who share your vision but are different enough to bring something new to the table
Summary
- Choose business partners who share your vision but are different enough to bring something new to the table
Details
- Must be someone you trust
- has complementary skills or ideas to you
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Quotes
GATES: In my case, I’d have to say my best business decisions have had to do with picking people. Deciding to go into business with Paul Allen is probably at the top of the list, and subsequently, hiring a friend—Steve Ballmer—who has been my primary business partner ever since. It’s important to have someone who you totally trust, who is totally committed, who shares your vision, and yet who has a little bit different set of skills and who also acts as something of a check on you. Some of the ideas you run by him, you know he’s going to say, “Hey, wait a minute, have you thought about this and that?” The benefit of sparking off somebody who’s got that kind of brilliance is that it not only makes business more fun, but it really leads to a lot