Welcome to the 10-minute entrepreneur podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs,

taught by active business owner, best-selling author, and teacher, Sean Castrina.

All right, Sean Castrina author, but more importantly, an entrepreneur who started more than 20

companies over 25 years and presently owned many successful companies.

And the secret, and it's the name of this lesson, one plus one equals done.

One plus one equals done.

In my life, the one thing I've done in business different

than most people is I've partnered in business. I currently have six business partners.

Why? Well, what I have learned is there's exponential power in a partnership. One person

can do this, but two people going together can produce so much more.

I've also learned because people always tell me, do you like sharing the profit?

You know, is it a problem sharing the money?

And I've always thought, you know, 50% of a lot is better than 100% of a little.

I kind of like what Reid Hoffman said.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy,

if you're playing a solo game, you will always lose out to a team. I think there's power in

multiple people. All right, why do you partner? Let me just share with you all the reasons why

you may consider partnering and then we're going to get into when to partner next. But, you know, why do you partner? Let me just share with you all the reasons why you may consider partnering

and then we're going to get into when to partner next. But, you know, why do I partner? I partner when I see

that there's an obvious gap to where I need to be. I realize I'm here. The destination is here

and I can't get me there. Okay, so there's a gap. I realize that if I

partnered with somebody, we could get the scale faster, okay, just pure speed, faster,

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