Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Larry Page and Sergey Brin: so many of the brightest ideas that define our modern age started out as partnerships. And the power of two does not characterize just the computer age, but goes back in time. Friedrich Bayer and Johann Weskott, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach were the key partnerships of the industrial era that shaped our modern societies. But imagine that all these innovators had spent their time in litigation against one another as soon as they had their first disagreement. We will never know how many great inventions or deals have remained unrealized because businesses fell apart when the partners failed to solve their minor disagreements amicably. A slow process Fallings out exist in every country and certainly in Lebanon where the danger of fraternal disputes is documented in the high number
