Gatina read his co-founder a hypothetical firing script before hiring him
Steve Gatina · How 2 Personal Losses Led To Building The #1 Faith-Based Media Company · Apr 18, 2023 · at 55:01
Pray.com CEO Steve Gatina discusses how he managed boundaries and performance expectations when onboarding his close friend and co-founder Matt Potter.
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“I walked Matt through when we first linked up, because Matt left as the CEO of his own company that was super successful. Shout out to Homestack. Matt left his company to work with me, and I walked him through not only, hey, I'm the CEO of this company, and I'll respect you as a co-founder, Right. And I'll respect you as a talented person in whatever role you're in, but I'm the CEO. And also here's how I'm going to fire you. And I literally walked him through the words that I would say when I let him go for performance reasons. And Matt was like, that's crazy. And I was like, yeah, that's exactly how it's going to work if you don't perform.”
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