Chris Koerner

My wife and I wanted seven kids when we got married.

We settled on four, right?

It changed over time.

It took years to change.

We realized kids are actually freaking hard, right?

And so then we're like, where do we live?

What kind of house do we want?

We spend all this time, maybe while we're engaged, maybe while we're dating, maybe after we're married.

But those are big decisions, right?

But when we choose a business partner, we go get avocado toast together and we're like 50-50.

Cool.

Sounds good.

Let's do this.

You know, I'll get the doc signed.

It's like, who is that guy?

You might have even known him your whole life, but who is he as a business partner or as a business person?

I just, I feel like business partnerships are significantly harder than marriages even.

But we put 99% less thought into like the structure of things.

And that's a giant failure that I've made over and over again.

What do you wish someone had said to you in the situations where it didn't work out with business partners or really like across the board?