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Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. He wanted to hear the story of how we went from doomed in the eyes of the world to a $1.6B outcome with no recapitalization. After I took him through the details including several…

In a normal business you can often sweep bad performers under the rug and not deal with them. When you have millions or billions of dollars of revenue you can suffer a few bad performers or bad…

The “right way” to fire an employee doesn’t exist — but we can all get closer to it by keeping these 6 things in mind. A few months ago, I fired someone. Ugh. It was gut-wrenching. I’ve fired

Michael Lopp has headed up People Operations at both Palantir and Pinterest. Here, he explains how to fire people the right way.

I remember the first time I fired someone. Every manager does. Mine happened about a month before Christmas.

It was cool when you had hell of weed to smoke And you bought a new home where you could keep your folks I don’t see how this side of you could be provoked It was all good just a …