Startup Therapy

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about the possibility of firing your employees for a restart? Let’s put it this way. The people in your team when you started may not be the right people now that your business is growing. The skills that they currently have may no longer fit the roles you need to continuously push your team forward. Everything changes, all things evolve, skills must upgrade. What about your people?

Show Notes

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about the possibility of firing your employees for a restart? Let’s put it this way. The people in your team when you started may not be the right people now that your business is growing. The skills that they currently have may no longer fit the roles you need to continuously push your team forward. Everything changes, all things evolve, skills must upgrade. What about your people?    

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Resources:

What to Listen For
  • 00:00 Intro
  • 00:19 Every founder has had a reset moment
  • 04:37 The person you hired before may not be the best person now
  • 09:31 What roles will not hire again?
  • 13:18 Directional changes do happen
  • 17:42 The compensation for every role
  • 21:26 Managing is a very different job
  • 24:56 Who should you rehire?
  • 30:36 What roles are the best way to use your resources?

What is Startup Therapy?

The "No BS" version of how startups are really built, taught by actual startup Founders who have lived through all of it. Hosts Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan talk candidly about the intense struggles Founders face both personally and professionally as they try to turn their idea into something that will change the world.