CEOs Share Advice on Firing Someone with Nick Grouf on Firing Employees with Dignity
Channel: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship
Date: 11/06/2021

Enable People to Leave with Dignity

Nick Grouf, co-founder of several tech startups including Firefly, PeoplePC, Clementine Capital—a tech-based incubator—and Alpha Edison—a venture capital fund—agrees that, ultimately, firing an employee is a judgment call. And often, despite careful explanation, an employee who has been terminated feels demoralized and may be judged or ostracized by former colleagues. Decades of experience haven’t made firing staff any easier or less emotionally taxing, but he learned there are ways to “do it in a way that really respects the individual.”