“No One Wants Someone to Be with Them for Their Money”: Partners in Business and Life

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PAPartnerCouples and healthy relationshipsBusiness partnershipAn entrepreneur's strategy and decisionsF/Friend / friendsTruth

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• 00:00And build a company worth $10 million. Share tragedy, pain, trauma, business closures, failure, bankruptcy—anything at all—with that person.Partner · Time · Love
• 02:03A partner. Write in the comments: have you had partners in your life? Were all those partnerships great and the choices easy? Have you ever chosen the wrong partner?Partner · Time · Wife
• 03:23Perhaps you feel an impulse that something could emerge with this person. They offer you something, or a team or group of people offers you something…The goal of a business · Business partnership · Partner
• 05:26The other side is incredibly important for success and for moving in the right direction together: understanding that your partner may have an entirely different goal, task, actions, foundations…Friend / friends · Partner · Truth
• 07:22Imagine that situation. The partnership will fail if you don't tell them. If you honestly say, “Listen, my inner goal is to make money.”Truth · Love · Andrey Rogachev
• 09:17We agreed to do a project together. This is important: among our written agreements for the project, we said distributing the business's profits mattered to us. But did he need that profit?Friend / friends · Partner · Fear
• 10:14And most likely, that person already has expectations. I expected us to make more than a billion dollars in that business, because the main goal was to earn more…Truth · Partner · Fear
• 11:26Most importantly, you're creating false expectations for the other person. They may also be afraid, leaving things unexplained or lying, and they add their lie to yours.Truth · The client
• 12:15Yes, we were discussing the details of a potential partnership, with two people. I set out a whole list of parameters and details under which I was willing to work together.Truth · Time
• 13:46This also matters for your own life, for developing in the right direction according to the laws of truth, and for moving forward.Truth · Partner · The Next Step system

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• 01:21

  The partnership when I launched my first programming company, the partnership at Business Molodost, my partnership with Andrey Rogachev at Agro24, and the partnership at GeekBrains.

  Alexander Volchek

• 02:44

  I also have a partnership with my wife that has lasted a very long time. We actually met in 1987.

  Alexander Volchekdefinition

• 06:46

  That's not true, because each person has their own inner goal and experience of partnership.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 07:32

  “What's your real goal?” Try to see that their goal isn't to make money with you, because there's no guarantee you'll make an amount that interests them.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 08:41

  I've partnered with someone whose financial position was completely different from mine.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 09:20

  Among our written agreements for the project, we said distributing the business's profits mattered to us.

  Alexander Volchekrecommendationdefinition

• 10:17

  I expected us to make more than a billion dollars in that business, because the main goal was to earn more than a billion dollars and build a company worth more than a billion.

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• 11:15

  So if you're choosing a partner, reflecting on whether to be with this person, and holding something back, you're creating false expectations for yourself.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 12:02

  In some partnerships, you think through business circumstances in extraordinary detail because there's no other way.

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• 14:10

  It will let you, as a person, live your life as fully, honestly, truthfully, and authentically as possible.

  Alexander Volchekdefinitionprinciple