Monday, September 12, 2011

"You can't fire me - you don't even work here!"

Another story from entrepreneur and venture capitalist Albert Wenger:

I know of a subsequently very successful entrepreneur who in the early days of his first company was so mortified of having to fire someone that he sent in his wife instead to do it. When the employee in question caught on to what was happening, he said to the wife: “You can’t fire me, you don’t even work here” to which she apparently replied “yes, that’s the point — neither do you.” The next day the entrepreneur decided he needed to hire a right hand person who could help with this going forward!

I hope this entrepreneur eventually got the courage to do difficult tasks like this himself. However, I'm very impressed with his wife--there's no doubt about her courage!

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