Your last paragraph. Correct. The fear of letting people down can be crippling. To be brutally honest, there is a type of CEO who simply doesn't feel that as d

Your last paragraph. Correct. The fear of letting people down can be crippling. To be brutally honest, there is a type of CEO who simply doesn't feel that as deeply as some people, and they tend to do well in the job, especially when times are good. In my experience, that type of person is not the same type of person who comes up with an idea and creates something out of nothing. You need some real empathy to find product-market fit; you have to actually care about users and early adopters and by extension investors and employees. But that profile I don't think works at a big company, there is a totally different dynamic.