It might be even worse than seeming like an asshole sometimes, it might actually make you anti-social the way being a VC or police officer does for most people.

It might be even worse than seeming like an asshole sometimes, it might actually make you anti-social the way being a VC or police officer does for most people. It could be that having thousands of negative interactions with people tends to damage your personality in some ways. People who actively choose not to be CEO, like John Carmack, probably sense this effect and want to avoid it. Some people might be better than others at coping with this. Steve Jobs might've been really good at this, or really bad, it's difficult to determine.