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There's a huge difference between being able to speak nicely despite being a dick, and not being a dick. I don't care if someone curses or is blunt about how t
by frivoal 10y ago
There's a huge difference between being able to speak nicely despite being a dick, and not being a dick.
I don't care if someone curses or is blunt about how they think something sucks, but one joke about how a certain person from sales who keeps bringing customers to hostess bars has a "nice but unfortunately expensive hobby", or to refer to engineers as "the autists", or to be glad that "the monkey is gone" when a black person leaves the room (all things I have heard from execs)... That does not show how bold and disruptive someone is, it just shows they are a terrible person. Maybe still a successful terrible person, but I still want nothing to do with people like that.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThey'll probably still attract talent, though. That will get their startup going. At some point, it cleans its act up a little on the way to the acquisition or IPO. What I see happening. Always people willing to work with or under assholes so long as they might get rich. Hell, it might be the default model of employment for a good chunk of the American workforce now that I think about it. Just with wages instead of riches or IOU's from failed startups. ;)