# partnership
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48:35What happens when they disagree?Al Elliott: I have to ask the question, which I hope will be a simple answer, but I have to ask the question, what happens when you disagree? Gemma Ruse: I don't think we disagree loads about important things. We bring dEP 271 · 29 Jan 2026·panel interview· 48:35–51:3835:15How employers can work with IveeLydia & Amelia (Ivee co-founders, merged ch): Not only does Ivy allow the women to trust in the employers that are on there and not know, you know, there's every employer under the sun on this platform. How am I supposedEP 94 · 2 May 2024·interview· 35:15–36:390:00Intro and why Joe wanted a partnerJoe Fier: And this is, this was a decision I needed to make for myself, my family, and it was the right move. It was fucking hard. And this is like, I didn't wanna lose a friend, so, or friends, but mainly Matt because, EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·intro· 0:00–7:4410:51How do you know when things aren't working?Al Elliott: So how would you know when things aren't working in a partnership? I know for me it was just that I didn't have the interest or the energy I once had for the business that I was in partnership with. And just EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 10:51–12:4712:47When do you know the partnership should end?Leanne Elliott: Okay, so you know it isn't working, but when do you actually know the partnership should end? Joe Fier: I think a lot of people thought that it's— we had a good thing going, and I think we both would agreEP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 12:47–15:0315:04The 'having a kid to save the marriage' trapAl Elliott: You know how some people think having a kid is going to save their marriage and generally it doesn't? Well, Joe and Matt's equivalent of having a kid together was a hard pivot into Web3 and crypto. So I askedEP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 15:04–20:2620:26How Joe told Matt — the 3-hour Discord messageLeanne Elliott: So at this point, they both know that things aren't right. I wanted to know how Joe told Matt exactly how did they break up? Joe Fier: Ended up writing something in Discord for like, probably took me 3 hoEP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 20:26–23:0223:02Does Joe regret the pivot?Al Elliott: One of the questions I asked Joe was, should they have ended it earlier? Does Joe regret even doing this pivot? Joe Fier: I'm gonna be honest and like say like, yeah, I should have been doing that shit for myEP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 23:02–26:0832:10Should others have spoken up?Joe Fier: I don't think it was his job. I would never ever put anyone externally to be that person. Could, I mean, just like me, could we have sensed things were a little off? Yes. And I think that comes to knowing each EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 32:10–34:3634:36What makes a great partnership?Joe Fier: I think what makes a great partnership is, is this whole open communication and again, getting real and checking in with each other. And that's something that Matt and I did a lot of. Every single day is like, EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 34:36–35:4737:51Partnership prenupsLeanne Elliott: Prenups, controversial. Let's not say any more about that. Um, but you know, the logical scientist in me quite likes the idea of having a specific pre-agreed way of ending a partnership. It kind of takes EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 37:51–39:549:01The hot air balloon analogy — Al and Leanne on their own dynamicChris Savage: Yeah Leanne Elliott: I mean, in our, in our RX7 blueprint, which is all about the foundation, 7 foundations of amazing workplace cultures, one of those, and one of the most important of those, is role. UndeEP 68 · 8 Dec 2023·interview· 9:01–9:28
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