". . .I was not great at "onboarding" people--a process that starts long before someone fills out a W9. (For a long time, I thought onboarding consisted entirel

". . .I was not great at "onboarding" people--a process that starts long before someone fills out a W9. (For a long time, I thought onboarding consisted entirely of filling out paperwork. Oops. " I would love to know more about what he thinks should be included in onboarding, now that he has the benefit of hindsight and more experience. And I would think that a lot of what he would learned re: start-up onboarding would apply equally well to decent larger companies, as well, though likely on a less-compressed schedule than with a start-up. It also sounds like that employee stayed for a while. In a start-up, I would assume you could and would pull the cord sooner.