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Re:What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk? by noonespecial on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:04PM (#4576336)
This is dangerous advice. Brilliant people work for your startup for less than they could make at bigcorp because they believe in the vision. If you show them the door as soon as you get what you want out of them, you're in for a world of hurt.

This seems to be exactly what happened to the OP. The superstar spent years after poaching employees and starting trouble.

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Re:What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk? by beezee on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:59PM (#4576998)
best point i've seen yet- if he's poaching employees means they were poachable, and you can't poach a happy employee
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Re:What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk? by woodchuck64 on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:44PM (#4576551)
He says the Brilliant Jerk quit and then spent years poaching employees and starting trouble. Working on an amicable parting well before that is the OP's advice.
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Re:What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk? by rhizome on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:47PM (#4577944)
As long as any failure to engineer an amiable parting is blamed on the "jerk."
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