"(As we later learned, it probably cost us little to reject people whose characters we had doubts about, because how good founders are and how well they do are

"(As we later learned, it probably cost us little to reject people whose characters we had doubts about, because how good founders are and how well they do are not orthogonal. If bad founders succeed at all, they tend to sell early. The most successful founders are almost all good.)" A little Manichaen?