Eric Siu argues that becoming the connector who brings valuable people together is how you build a powerful network. Host small gatherings where like-minded people meet and collaborate. Business is a people game: hire and meet values-aligned individuals, and your network and net worth compound.
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how I've built my network over the years. If you know how to become the connector or the node, everyone eventually figures out who you are and they know who you are. They just wanna know like, oh, it's always Eric, the one that's connecting everything. If you can put a great group of people together and then they can have a nice meal and then just make things like easy, like done for you, people are gonna come back to you. And you and I both know that everything in business is very much a people game. You need to hire amazing people. Well, if you meet amazing people, they might know other amazing people, or sometimes they might become your customers or they might refer you to somebody else. All I've known in the past is just, As long as I keep meeting amazing people that have my values, I know my network and my net worth will keep compounding.