If it has been going on for months, they should have already been on a PIP and fired. That doesn’t seem to be the case here. If a PIP was in place, fine. Don’t

If it has been going on for months, they should have already been on a PIP and fired. That doesn’t seem to be the case here. If a PIP was in place, fine. Don’t pay out the vest. But if they weren’t because of your bad decisions as a leader, that’s on the founder.