Chris Degnan

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1,056 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 May

Chris Degnan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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He's like, when you have doubt, there's no doubt.

And really, I learned that from Frank is making those hard decisions quickly.

It does so many things.

First of all, you get rid of the rot.

Second of all, it makes other people better because you all of a sudden you are a performance based culture.

You're getting rid of someone who's not performing and people look up to you.

So I've had to make very hard decisions, multiple senior people that I've fired throughout my career.

I hate firing people.

It makes me sick to my stomach.

Any advice to founders, because I hate it too, on how to do it well from what you found?

With this senior person, I said, listen, like, hey man, it's not working out and I feel really bad, but this is not going to work out.

He goes, and his response to me was like, I can change.

And I'm like, I've done enough research.

You cannot change.

It's not going to make any difference.

We are not going to change our opinion.

I am super sorry.

You and I are good.

We're good people.

I'm not going to go talk smack about you out in the world, but this employment engagement is over.

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