I’ve often noted that, in any partnership, both partners believe they do two-thirds of the work.

Interesting, then, to see Ben Franklin’s advice on this front, in his Autobiography:

>Partnerships often finish in quarrels; but I was happy in this, that mine were all carried on and ended amicably, owing, I think, a good deal to the precaution of having very explicitly settled, in our articles, every thing to be done by or expected from each partner, so that there was nothing to dispute, which precaution I would therefore recommend to all who enter into partnerships; for, whatever esteem partners may have for, and confidence in each other at the time of the contract, little jealousies and disgusts may arise, with ideas of inequality in the care and burden of the business, etc., which are attended often with breach of friendship and of the connection, perhaps with lawsuits and other disagreeable consequences.

Relatedly, it appears Ben was also an early angel investor (seriously), backing young printers in other cities by putting up the capital to buy their equipment in exchange for 50% of the profits:

>The partnership at Carolina having succeeded, I was encourag’d to engage in others, and to promote several of my workmen, who had behaved well, by establishing them with printing-houses in different colonies, on the same terms with that in Carolina. Most of them did well, being enabled at the end of our term, six years, to purchase the types of me and go on working for themselves, by which means several families were raised.
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About a year back, I joined One Medical, a startup-esque medical practice that’s quickly spread from San Francisco to New York, Washington D.C., Boston and Chicago. Recently, Jess joined too. This past week, both of us went in for flu shots.

The experience at One Medical is so good that I actually find it slightly confusing each time I’m there. How can they be making money doing this? Why aren’t other medical practices like this, too? But, at some level, I don’t really care. For a fairly low fee ($199 a year), I can make doctors appointments online, often for the same day; I can email with my doctor about medical questions; appointments start on time (and I mean really on time – Jess’ doctor was twelve minutes late for her 5:00pm appointment, and gave her a Starbucks gift certificate by way of apology for being ‘so behind’); and the doctors (at least the three I’ve seen so far) are knowledgable, friendly, and extremely competent. They happily take insurance. And because they collect information when you make the appointment online, I breeze in and out without even stopping to fill out the standard clipboards full of forms.

They’re not an Outlier portfolio company. But they are, to me, exactly the kind of company that’s exciting to me and Outlier. They take a common experience – going to the doctor – that’s clearly broken, and improve it so much that, as Jess did to me after her first appointment, you want to text someone just to say wow.

Apparently in need of glasses, the staff of DuJour Magazine describes me as [“5-foot-6, with a lean, athletic build developed from years of working out regularly — picture Bruce Lee”](http://www.dujour.com/2012-12/728/crossfit-the-wall-street-workout).

I did [a Q&A with Finnish CrossFit software company WODConnect about lessons learned running CFNYC](http://blog.wodconnect.com/post/38141285911/affiliate-lessons-learned-part-2-joshua-newman).

Apparently very short on content, the [CrossFit Journal](http://journal.crossfit.com/) recently interviewed me about the growth of CFNYC: