Devon Hartman and Bill Baldwin are
50-50 partners in Hartman-Baldwin
Co., a design/build construction firm in
Claremont, Calif. Today their company
employs more than a dozen people, and
operates out of a building they designed
and built to house their offices. But it
wasn't always that way. As we talked
about making the transition from independent
tradesmen to business partners,
we learned something about the obstacles
a partnership presents and the means
Devon and Bill use to overcome them.
JLC: How did your partnership come
about?
Devon: About 16 years ago, we ran
into each other on a job, and hit it
off as friends immediately.
Bill: In the years before we were
partners, I worked for Devon or