Nikola Kolev

Say yes to the Nikola Kolev hire only against a handshake that it starts a timer on Jason Rodriguez - and reject the three-or-four-more-people gate outright

Mariah reported that Nathan had told her he needs three or four more people in before anything moves on Jason Rodriguez, and would not be ready to start until October. Peter told Mariah flatly that is not going to be true, then took it to Nathan in their 1:1 the same afternoon. He drew the line precisely: he will shake hands on you can hire a Jason Rodriguez replacement before we do anything about Jason, but not on we filled every role that we could possibly fill before we are doing something. He then made Nikola conditional - if you want to move forward on Nick because you think it will allow you to remove Jason, then I will say yes, but I would like it to come with a handshake that you are getting super aggressive then with Jason. Nathan agreed to the handshake. In the roundtable an hour earlier Peter had held the same question open in front of the panel, saying the manager conversation had to happen separately.