Partnerships Part 1: Do You Actually Need A Business Partner?

Veterinary Business Accelerator. Time, Profit, Freedom · Aug 7, 2026 · 18m

"The only ship that never sails is a partnership."

One of the many tongue-in-cheek aphorisms you'd have heard that all allude to the same thing: not many things can ruin a veterinary business as reliably as a failed business partnership.

In this first episode of a three-part series, Sam brings in his own business partner, Shane Barker, who he's been in business with for the better part of fourteen years. Shane has run hundred-million-dollar companies, and before that he was a family law barrister, which means he's spent a career watching partnerships of both the romantic and the work kind…