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>You say you're willing to walk away. Do it.

Given your first line, this sounds like a bad faith suggestion. Why should I walk away from something promising vs helping our team become more productive?

And given the context of the person in question, who was fired from the last startup for lack of productivity, I don't think this will do much to my reputation. My reputation is pretty good right now. Yes, I feel a little dirty about how this situation is going down, but it's not out of malice. It's out of wanting to work with excellent people and build an excellent product.

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The best advice here is the one by ChuckMcM. Please read it carefully.

Your comments are showing a very toxic approach to this whole situation.

I was unfortunate to have hired toxic people in the past, who believed they were better than everyone else, who don’t give a damn about other people, and believe they know better than anyone else. Very productive individuals, just like yourself. I kept them in the team for their productivity, but I regret deeply not having fired them on the first red flags. When they finally left, it felt like a cancer was removed from me, personally, and from the company. The productivity of the entire team increased as others now felt they could step up.

Don’t be that guy. You are heading that direction and it wont end well.

The company is not yours, so I believe you should leave for the health of everyone involved, including yourself.

Don’t worry about the company, they don’t need you to survive.

We just don't know. The OP might be arrogant as you say, or overly conscientious There really are dead weights, sometimes reactively (esp if on the spectrum) but many just 'cause they can. There are minus-10x employees.

Since we can't psychically divine which, the principle of charity applies, I think you have to take OP at his word until you can point out a direct contradiction, say.

>Given your first line, this sounds like a bad faith suggestion. Why should I walk away from something promising vs helping our team become more productive?

You presented two options: stay and try to fire the other guy, or leave. I presented a reason why you shouldn't stay, and suggested you leave. Not sure what about that appears to you as bad faith.

>And given the context of the person in question, who was fired from the last startup for lack of productivity, I don't think this will do much to my reputation.

But you're not going to control the narrative; your fired coworker will - unless you're willing to go door to door and publicize the fact that you got that person fired, which is a terrible idea.

>It's out of wanting to work with excellent people and build an excellent product.

You generally don't get to do that by punishing people who recommend you for jobs that you find fulfilling.

I've always found that the most talented people in a room tend to gravitate towards one another; so too do the most toxic. If you keep doing toxic things, don't be surprised when you find yourself surrounded with people just like yourself.

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