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“I’m thinking I’m going to let “Randy” go,” I told “Raul” who was one of our two investors. Raul nodded, and then he asked me why I was thinking of letting Randy go.
“Randy’s having problems working with the rest of the team. I’m going to try and see if I can help…”
Raul cut me off with a wave of his arm, and then he said, “Don’t bother. I’m going to tell you something you don’t want to hear, but you’re going to have fire Randy.”
It was my turn to nod this time.
The truth was I knew in my heart of hearts that Randy had to go. The truth was I knew Randy needed to go.
We were having our weekly engineering review meeting in our boardroom, the office next mine. My cofounder and VP Engineering led the meeting,
The meeting was going along just fine until Randy starts ripping into the VP Engineering. He was questioning the engineering schedule of one of the projects in development.
Randy started screaming at the VP Engineering about something, I can’t remember what. However, I do remember defending the VP Engineering.
Then Randy started yelling at me, “What are you? His spokesperson!”
“Excuse me?” I responded.
