I'm not trying to use a 'gotcha'. This isn't an argument from authority, I'm trying to use my experience as a vehicle for understanding one facet of this topic.

I'm not trying to use a 'gotcha'. This isn't an argument from authority, I'm trying to use my experience as a vehicle for understanding one facet of this topic. My fundamental point is simply that failure is a matter of goals. For startup founders failure is something you are likely going to think about constantly as you ramp up to deciding to quit your job and put your idea out there, and that's a waste of time, and it's due to conflating different failures. Once you move past that point, and start taking on more responsibilities, your goals have to shift if you're any kind of ethical person. While early employees may be willing to take on a lot of risk, and are fundamentally responsible for the choice to come on, it would be, as you said sociopathic, not to feel any kind of responsibility. I think, given this statement, we likely agree? But then you criticized the article for being too "Feel good", which I think is a mistake. Yes it is "feel good", but maybe it's hard to understand why you need to frame things that way when you're putting yourself out there like this.