From the course: Success Stories with Dave Crenshaw

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Building a successful business partnership

Building a successful business partnership

From the course: Success Stories with Dave Crenshaw

Building a successful business partnership

(gentle music) - [Host] Yahya and Saam leveraged each other's strengths to build a powerful partnership. Their combined passions and skills created a solid foundation for success. - [Saam] You go through these ebbs and flows of strengths and weaknesses as the business develops. I think at the beginning, when we first started the journey, and if you go back it was 2008, and so let's go back to that timeframe of what we were dealing with is the great financial crisis. Summer of '08 was when we graduated. And born from the fire of that crisis, we had to figure out how to get jobs. And working in California became much more difficult, and especially, I was going to bring my future wife to a role in California. So we were looking for two jobs. Same with him in Orange County. It was a challenge at the time. So our partner, my old roommate from UCLA was finding a job in Texas. We said, "Hey, come out for a year or two.…

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