What’s The Right Way To Perform Layoffs?
There’s a great story in Ben Horowitz’s book, “The Hard Thing About Hard Things”, that I can really relate to. In the book, Horowitz’s company, Opsware, was going to IPO. At the same time, they were going to perform a layoff.

Horowitz was planning on being in New York for the IPO until one of Opsware’s board members, the legendary Bill Campbell, had a chat with him. Campbell told him his…