Rob Walling

But another reason is I knew it was a skill set that would help me forever.

I didn't know if I would be an entrepreneur.

It was a dream, but I didn't know if it would ever happen.

But I did know that it would help me at my day job.

And if I ever did start a company, I had to know how to hire and how to fire people.

And something I learned as I went through this is that hiring well is hard.

You're never going to be perfect at it, but it does take reps.

And the more reps you put in, usually the better you get at it.

And firing is actually really tough.

It's tough to make that decision because it's always muddier than you think it's going to be.

it's never as clear as you want it to be and usually it's the really nice but less than slightly less than competent person who you're like well i keep them around because they're really nice and they get along with the rest of the team and you know there's always these edge cases and learning that if i wanted to have a high performing team that i had to hire really well and learn how to do that and how to evaluate people and then i had to be pretty picky about it and then i had to fire relatively quickly

to reduce long-term pain was a great, it was a great skill set to learn.

I didn't learn it in a week.

I didn't learn it in a year.

It was probably over the course of four or five years, over two or three different jobs.

Cause yeah, I was a job hopper.

Shocker, right?

This unemployable.

I was actually very nice.

I never made people mad.