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Eric Siu reflects on what happens when employees leave and the emotional weight of uncertain payroll. He shares lessons in humility and how poker taught him to stay resilient through daily effort, no matter what.
Eric Siu reflects on what happens when employees leave and the emotional weight of uncertain payroll. He shares lessons in humility and how poker taught him to stay resilient through daily effort, no matter what.
When people leave you, they're ultimately firing you as a leader. Ultimately, what they're looking for is they want to grow at a company. They want there to be— obviously, there needs to be safety because they need to put food on the table for their loved ones. And I failed these people at the end of the day. And that was a very humbling lesson. And I would say my emotional state at the time, it was an emotional roller coaster where I wasn't sure if we'd be able to survive or even make the next payroll. And so there's a lot of pressure. I would say maybe a counter lesson to this would be, this is where a lot of my poker training from college really came into play here because I didn't really let anything get me too far down, and I just knew that work needed to be done, and I needed to just put one foot in front of the other every single day, just do that over and over, and things would end up being okay.
