In all my years of running corporations and teaching new players, the one thing I always did one thing. I kept people at a distance, I had "friends" in-game and people I spoke to a lot on Discord but due to my IRL issues, I always found it hard to keep these friends and I transferred this into the game.
One such person who is now a member of my YouTube team is DemonGateUK, he was recruited via our Eve Online recruitment forum post, and he joined us as an industrial player and mission runner, but had over five years of experience in-game. After six months, we lost our industry head and since we needed a continuous supply of ships, I was then at a loss of what to do, the industry was never my strong suit, so we had a commanders meeting and we decided we had no choice and needed to take a chance, so we offered him the position.
He was more than happy to do it and since he would have access to everything it was a big risk, but he turned out to be a godsend, quickly organising the industry players into this blazing machine which not only turned out the frigates and destroyers we needed, but he also organised them into producing ships for pure profit. For once, our corporation was actually making money instead, all because of him.
I then met him IRL and since then, he has become one of my best friends, godfather to three of my children and is probably one of the best people I know online and offline.
