So if you're a founder, here's a deal you can make with yourself that will both make you happy and make your company successful. Tell yourself you c

So if you're a founder, here's a deal you can make with yourself that will both make you happy and make your company successful. Tell yourself you can be as nice as you want, so long as you work hard on your growth rate to compensate. Doesn't this imply that if you have less than a "hyperlinear growth curve" you should be a raging sociopath[1]? Fuck that. [1] Or, to be precise, "a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power"