> I’ve done plenty of business with friends. In fact, the
> majority of my business has been with friends or
> acquaintances. Some of those friends even stopped using
> me when I raised rates over the years and they’re still
> my friends. I’m having drinks with one of them tonight,
> in fact.
I'm happy that doing business with your friends worked out in this case, but in general I'd tend to stay away from it. Nothing can ruin a great friendship like money.
> “The fact that they are my friend means there’s something cool and interesting about this person,”
Yeah maybe they like the same board games or the same beer as you and that's their cool and interesting thing that makes them your friend. Doesn't mean their business idea is worth any penny.
That actually made me laugh out loud, but I assume they meant their colleagues who are also their friends. Something like the logician's definition of 'and', I suppose.
How did you conclude he’s talking about friends? In the whole article word "friend" doesn’t appear even once. Also, a person can hardly have hundreds of friends. Three, sure. Seven, very probably. Twelve, maybe. But hundreds? Impossible.
Do you believe that you can not have a friendship when there are economic factors at play? That is an understandable belief, though I disagree, and if you believe that, the rest of what you said makes sense; in your mind I would be throwing away a friendship when I hired a friend. Of course, that's not what I believe, but that would explain our disagreement.
Did you mean "Platonic friends"?
Although it sounds kinda nice to have Plutonic friends as well, since they'd have yachts and what not.
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