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Rockefeller said (roughly): good business makes good friendships, good friendships makes bad business. There are so many possible risk scenarios not discussed
by vessenes 14y ago
Rockefeller said (roughly): good business makes good friendships, good friendships makes bad business.
There are so many possible risk scenarios not discussed in that essay. It does take more maturity, healthy relationship skills and good communication to work with existing people in your life. But that's fine, we should develop those skills anyway.
It's perfectly possible that a CEO could be 'happy' while his/her friends quietly remain unhappy.
In a way, a company failing could be the best outcome for friends and family getting hired -- everyone tried together and bonded in the crash. The worst could be a quality exit, in which your friend is enriched at 10-100x the amount you are. It's hard to stay friends with someone who just worked you hard for n years and then made 100x the money off the experience.
- rpq1480 14y agoInteresting comment re: the best outcome being failure. I could see failure as going terribly for family/friend relationships. People are often at their most stressed in situations where their economic stability is threatened, and stress generally leads to conflict, in my experience.