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Eric Siu on what it means when your employees leave: you failed them. He talks about the pressure of making payroll, the emotional toll, and how poker taught him to stay composed when everything falls apart.
Eric Siu on what it means when your employees leave: you failed them. He talks about the pressure of making payroll, the emotional toll, and how poker taught him to stay composed when everything falls apart.
When people leave you, they're ultimately firing you as a leader. Ultimately, they want to grow at a company. 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. That was a very humbling lesson. And I would say my emotional state at the time, it was the 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.
