> hated how the majority of my attention, work stress and time was devoted to handling a toxic individual I've witnessed this in a startup I was peripherally

> hated how the majority of my attention, work stress and time was devoted to handling a toxic individual I've witnessed this in a startup I was peripherally involved with and know the founder quite well. The lead science guy had serious narcissism issues and he was seriously slowing them down by making every meeting about himself, constantly angling for more power and being unreasonable. When they finally fired him after an especially dumb maneuver, it was like the sun has come up after a dark night. Processes suddenly "just worked", juniors were taking over responsibilities and growing quickly into their roles, and the whole team got along much better. They made much better progress without him.