Opinion

January 31, 2022

Your best employee will quit. Here's how to make that a competitive advantage

Planning for the inevitable looks a bit different at very early-stage companies and slightly larger ones.


Your startup is chugging along, the team gels perfectly, the customer feedback is great. Then it hits. A founder’s worst nightmare: one of your earliest employees, an irreplaceably key team member, quits. 

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