Sep 6, 2021 · 15m · founders-journal
Thoughts on Employees Leaving
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Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman provides a leadership framework for evaluating employee departures, guiding founders to release unwarranted guilt by distinguishing between healthy, uncontrollable turnover and preventable organizational failures.
Statements from this episode (5)
Lieberman: Morning Brew has grown beyond 120 employees
“With Morning Brew at more than a 120 employees now, we have lost several employees, and it doesn't matter how great of a business you've built, how strong your culture is, or how well you retain talent, you just simply can't retain a hundred percent, and it st…”
Morning Brew's First Copywriter Left to Write Jokes for Google Home
“After a few months on the job, this person, I'll never forget it, pulled me out of our WeWork office to just a side table in the main area of WeWork, and they told me that they would be leaving to join Google, and they were going to be joining Google to write …”
Lieberman: Startup credibility inevitably leads to talent poaching by larger competitors
“As you gain credibility as a business, as you become known as an upstart media business, you're going to lose employees either via them getting poached by other media startups or established media businesses, or the employees simply leverage their brand And th…”
Startups scale by swapping generalist "Swiss army knives" for specialist "kitchen knives"
“As the business gets bigger, And as you go from early stage startup to late stage startup, and there's more clarity around the specific parts of the org and jobs to be done, because there's more of a plan, what you end up needing is not Swiss army knives, it's…”