Pro tip: Stop hiring your friends just because you trust them, I've seen three startups in Austin tank this year from bad hires that were impossible to fire.

I watched a SaaS company lose its entire seed round because the founder's college buddy, who was hired as CTO, couldn't actually code in the stack they needed, and the legal mess to remove him took 8 months and killed all momentum.

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mia_singh241mo ago

Remember that time with the nepotism hire at the bar?

the_tara1mo ago

Ugh, my friend's cafe almost went under because she made her cousin the manager. The guy just stopped showing up after two weeks and she couldn't bring herself to fire him for months.

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robin4891mo ago

@the_tara Family and business is a DISASTER waiting to happen. Seen this exact movie too many times. You HAVE to be able to fire people or you don't have a real business, you have a charity. Your friend got lucky the cafe survived that kind of management vacuum. Never, ever give a key role to someone just because you share DNA.