It's a lot more obvious for those categories because the money rolling in with barely any negative consequence strengthens their view beyond anything that a cou

It's a lot more obvious for those categories because the money rolling in with barely any negative consequence strengthens their view beyond anything that a counter-argument can counter. Unlike normal scale issues where you may be convinced (or even see yourself) you were doing wrong even with the best of intentions, with successful founders and CEOs that's nigh impossible. They genuinely cannot acknowledge this because even hard numbers will look like "it needs a small tweak but my vision and implementation are still great".