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This is dangerous advice. Brilliant people work for your startup for less than they could make at bigcorp because they believe in the vision. If you show them t
by noonespecial 14y ago
This is dangerous advice. Brilliant people work for your startup for less than they could make at bigcorp because they believe in the vision. If you show them the door as soon as you get what you want out of them, you're in for a world of hurt.
This seems to be exactly what happened to the OP. The superstar spent years after poaching employees and starting trouble.
- woodchuck64 14y agoHe says the Brilliant Jerk quit and then spent years poaching employees and starting trouble. Working on an amicable parting well before that is the OP's advice.
- rhizome 14y agoAs long as any failure to engineer an amiable parting is blamed on the "jerk."
- beezee 14y agobest point i've seen yet- if he's poaching employees means they were poachable, and you can't poach a happy employee