Vendors/Service Providers = Partners
Larry & I have both been working really hard on identifying and opening conversations with the skilled folks that it's going to take to make this venture work, and in the process working out our own personal definitions of the relationships we believe are critical to making this kind (or any kind) of business work.
In these relationships, we find that we *have* to be interested somewhat in the success or failure of the businesses who provide services to us as well. If we don't care about what they do, and take the standard "you are here to serve us" attitude that tells vendors that they are inferior to their clients, there's very little reason for the vendor or service provider to invest their best work in our business. We're not interested in mediocre work from anyone.
We believe that if our (major) vendors are not invested in our success either because it helps their company profit or because it brings them some kind of significant benefit, we are not going to be able to fully benefit from the services that vendor supplies.
Hence, we refer to folks we're working with, like Bacchus Caves, and WSGR, as "partners" because we've established that we as Vino Veritas are keenly interested in adding to the success of their businesses, as they in turn contribute above & beyond to the success of our business.
David Provost & Brian Simmonds over at Bacchus didn't need to invest the time they have with us. They're busy enough and successful enough that they turn away clients. Instead, they took their own time over weekends and weekdays to help us get a good understanding of what it takes to build outstanding underground structures. Costs, time, considerations, geology, all the things that they went out of the way to get us up to speed on. (Thank you guys!)
Yokum Taku, Scott, Jake and the team at WSGR didn't have to spend the time with us talking through (and continuing to talk through) the myriad of topics we still have to learn, nor did they have to execute all that they've already done with the amazing speed they have done so. (And I have a pretty good point of reference on this - I've been working for years with equally expensive Entertainment Lawyers whose level of service comes nowhere near the level that WSGR has been performing at). Their team's contributions drives us further and faster towards success at Vino Veritas just to show that all their hard work resulted in something really cool. (And thank you, again WSGR folks - we'll continue to work hard to make y'all proud.)
There's already a very long list of professionals that we work with on an almost daily basis (and we don't start full-time work on this for another week!), and we're grateful for the skills and talents that each of them bring.
We are proud to be building these conversations, relationships and mutual business & personal investments with each of these companies and people it's taking to turn this idea into a reality.
In these relationships, we find that we *have* to be interested somewhat in the success or failure of the businesses who provide services to us as well. If we don't care about what they do, and take the standard "you are here to serve us" attitude that tells vendors that they are inferior to their clients, there's very little reason for the vendor or service provider to invest their best work in our business. We're not interested in mediocre work from anyone.
We believe that if our (major) vendors are not invested in our success either because it helps their company profit or because it brings them some kind of significant benefit, we are not going to be able to fully benefit from the services that vendor supplies.
Hence, we refer to folks we're working with, like Bacchus Caves, and WSGR, as "partners" because we've established that we as Vino Veritas are keenly interested in adding to the success of their businesses, as they in turn contribute above & beyond to the success of our business.
David Provost & Brian Simmonds over at Bacchus didn't need to invest the time they have with us. They're busy enough and successful enough that they turn away clients. Instead, they took their own time over weekends and weekdays to help us get a good understanding of what it takes to build outstanding underground structures. Costs, time, considerations, geology, all the things that they went out of the way to get us up to speed on. (Thank you guys!)
Yokum Taku, Scott, Jake and the team at WSGR didn't have to spend the time with us talking through (and continuing to talk through) the myriad of topics we still have to learn, nor did they have to execute all that they've already done with the amazing speed they have done so. (And I have a pretty good point of reference on this - I've been working for years with equally expensive Entertainment Lawyers whose level of service comes nowhere near the level that WSGR has been performing at). Their team's contributions drives us further and faster towards success at Vino Veritas just to show that all their hard work resulted in something really cool. (And thank you, again WSGR folks - we'll continue to work hard to make y'all proud.)
There's already a very long list of professionals that we work with on an almost daily basis (and we don't start full-time work on this for another week!), and we're grateful for the skills and talents that each of them bring.
We are proud to be building these conversations, relationships and mutual business & personal investments with each of these companies and people it's taking to turn this idea into a reality.
posted by Jon Lawrence | 12:34 PM
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Thank you for the kind words about the WSGR team.
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