[firingtest]

> are they getting any equity? Do they make more (meaningfully more) money if they do a good job?

No, I understand this can be a problem but at the same time I don't see a good reason to give them equity. I might give them equity and then get the bad performance again then I'll be a total idiot.

> Are you sure of the reasons why their performance is bad?

No I'm not but I've tried hard to figure out and so far couldn't pin point.

> because they don't want to anger you and risk getting fired?

I don't think so as I openly discussed the matter and tried to change how we work to fix this problem by their suggestions. So they know if they think something will work better I'll go with that. For example with one of them we were doing daily reviews then he wanted to weekly and thought it'd be better. I agreed and didn't bother him for a week. Result same.