Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
This lesson is an episode of NPR's How I Built This.
Listen to the episodeWhat you'll get
Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender, who built an early green household brand from a mail-order catalog, talk with Guy Raz about the business even though they fell out badly in the early 1990s and have rarely spoken since. It is the longest story in the module and the one to hear if you are starting a company with a co-founder, because it dwells on how fragile a partnership can be.
Do this week
If you have a co-founder, talk this week through who decides what and how you would settle a standoff, and write the answers down; if you work alone, do the same for your first hire.