What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew. Welcome back to Founder's journal

My personal audio diary where I give you the business builder the tools you need to think better in order to build better

Whether that's building a business a team or a new product

It is time for our second ever mini-series of Founder's journal. Here's how it works

This week we are focused on one crucial topic in business that is important to builders founders and honestly all professionals and

We'll be serving you double the content to make the topic stick. That means two episodes today

two episodes Wednesday and two episodes Friday

The topic of this mini-series is building your team and today's episode is about whether you should work with friends or

Family in business. Let's hop into it

Don't do business with friends or family period end of story

That is the first thing I wrote down when prepping for this episode

It is such a visceral reaction at this point for me

Maybe it's because my family has always given this advice to me growing up and I trust what my family says or

Maybe I've simply watched and experienced too many personal relationships

Impacted as a result of hiring a friend or a family member and I'm now jaded

But it's not the case that every personal turned work relationship is doomed. There are success stories to prove it

You have stripe the nearly a hundred billion dollar payments company that was started by the Carlson brothers John and Patrick

You have event bright the publicly traded event management and ticketing platform

Which was started by Julia and Kevin Hartz who were fiances when founding the business and there's also another interesting

nuance to think about here is

personal turn work relationships

Also depend on the context in business. Is it your co-founder?

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