What Are The 6 Steps You Need To Take To Build A Loyal Startup Team?

brett fox
5 min readJan 21, 2020

“It was my fault. I screwed up,” I told Jack Gifford, Maxim Integrated Products founding CEO. “You should be screaming at me, not him!”

I didn’t want Steve (my boss) to take the beating for my screw-up. I wanted Jack to tear into me, not Steve.

Jack didn’t care. He kept his guns pointed at Steve and he wouldn’t relent.

Ten minutes later it was over. Steve was bloodied from the bullets he had taken. The CEO had made his point and left the meeting.

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brett fox

I work with startup CEOs to help them grow their businesses . I built several businesses from $0 to >$100M. Learn more at https://www.brettjfox.com