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My gut has. But I'm hoping to gain insight about the "nerves" of cofounders and if this is normal or whathaveyou.
by tossAwayEast 17y ago
My 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.