I personally deeply disliked the semi-cult like explanation that anyone moving out was basically not good enough to be there in the first place.

Apart from that, it's the good old Netflix playbook: empower managers to remove adequate team members with good severance to give space to good team members. The danger is letting it deteriorate into stack ranking if you are not careful with the deleterious effect on team work associated.

I hope everyone here who is praising the A, B, C-player framework recognizes that it comes from Jack Welch’s much criticized Vitality Curve system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Ratings

I don’t see much similarity here, other than the use of those three letters and the idea that Cs should be removed from the company.

The MrBeast As are rated on their ability to learn - which is surprisingly a characteristic that’s not mentioned in the Welch model.

MrBeast Bs are As who haven’t got there yet - Welch Bs are not expected to get there.

MrBeast Cs are reasonably capable but are missing out on that crucial learning instinct - again, not mentioned by Welch, who has Cs who are incompetent procrastinators.

I agree that they're not perfectly similar, but I strongly suspect that MrBeast's idea stemmed from the Welch model. They are suspisciously similar haha

I think it’s likely that the idea of A, B and C players is pretty widespread to the point that MrBeast was exposed to it, and that Jack Welch was the person who first popularized using the first three letters of the alphabet to categorize employees.

I was thinking that too. It’s something you don’t hear much from YC but a lot of founders have similar corporate hiring policies.