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"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally,
by teach 10y ago
"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter." -Paul Graham in "What We Look for in Founders"
http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
There's definitely a sense in which Kalanick's "boundary pushing" is the sort of thing Silicon Valley encourages.
- imh 10y agoYeah there's a sense, but a bunch of the negative stories about Uber/Kalanick have originated in our community too. Would Susan Fowler's story have gone viral had it not been for the outrage within Silicon Valley? Including "Silicon Valley and its denizens" includes a giant group of people who have been crying out against this behavior. I suppose I just don't like the insinuation that I (or my part of the Silicon Valley community) support that behavior.