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Sounds like you have already made your decision.
by mnemonik 17y ago
Sounds like you have already made your decision.
- tossAwayEast 17y agoMy gut has. But I'm hoping to gain insight about the "nerves" of cofounders and if this is normal or whathaveyou.
- olefoo 17y agoYeah, it's normal, telling someone that you've worked with closely that they aren't working out sucks; but you have to do it. If you don't it's a drain on you and your company when you can least afford it.
- hga 17y agoIndeed. One of the things I try to figure out about a startup I'm considered working for is "can they fire people?" Because while making a wrong founder/hiring decision is often fatal, it becomes much closer to surely fatal if you don't have what it takes to correct it. (And it is hard.)
- tossAwayEast 17y agoI hear that. Worked at a startup where that just couldn't be done and it damn near killed me. That being said, is it an indicator that as a founder not having what it takes to fire someone can be closely related to just not having what it takes to be a founder in general?
- hga 17y agoI wouldn't think so ... but this is so disabling in and of itself that I would think that doesn't really matter. It would depend on the reason, e.g. an inability to make hard decision is much worse than an inability to do a necessary but cruel thing.