Eric Siu argues that relationships matter enormously in business, but not all of them equally. He warns against spending time with people of low character and says being genuinely kind takes real effort. Close friends and acquaintances serve different purposes.
Everything is driven by relationships, and your time is so limited that you don't want to waste your time spending it with people that have low character. It takes work to become kind, and it just shows you that these people didn't put in the work, right? So that's why we think it's important to talk about friend friends versus just acquaintances. At the end of the day, it's everything, because we realized as we've gotten older, relationships are everything.
