How Are Great Start-ups Built? Core Trust and Affinity? Or Cold, Rational Assessment? – Part Five in a Series

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Lance Miller, president of DieselTek, speaks with on how start-ups form in clean diesel — or anywhere, for that matter. Lance corroborates my own belief that great partnerships are built on core, innate trust and affinity than on a cold, rational appraisal of a partner’s value in some sort of mathematical equation.

As it turns out, both Lance and the company’s founder and CEO, Eric Wheeler, have had their hands on mechanical devices — and had life circumstances that steered them towards entrepreneurship — since they were boys.