> Blank has found that more than half of all Silicon Valley founders come from chaotic, dysfunctional families. “It’s the cruelest and most effective training g

> Blank has found that more than half of all Silicon Valley founders come from chaotic, dysfunctional families. “It’s the cruelest and most effective training ground for being a founder,” Blank said, "and that ability to shut out everything except for what's important for survival turns out to be exactly what you need to do to be a successful CEO." The ability to shut out what is important for good mental survival is an unhealthy, dissonance creating behavior. By ignoring what is crucial to one's mental stability and focusing on an arbitrary goal (which is to make someone else not doing the work more money) is an INSANE behavior to practice. It might make sense if it were life and death, but rationalizing the technology improvements that come from these types of efforts, and the money that comes with those improvements, is just a sign of massive societal dissonance. Technology will continue to increase in sophistication regardless of how idiotic we are with our own mental health and sanity. These people, mostly billionaires I will point out, only stand to profit from others throwing themselves into something so completely that the chances are that the founders will either succeed widely or end up being broken as a result. Justifying "brokenness" as a needed trait for CEOs using biased blaming statements is a sign of a self centered rationalization. And for what? That jackass on the right was even laughing about people paying $10 more to sit closer to him. Fuck those guys. Build your own company on your own terms. Live your life fully TODAY, for tomorrow may not be at all.