This is very true, and is also why we have things like corporations, founder cash-outs, outlandish executive compensation packages, finance, golden parachutes,

This is very true, and is also why we have things like corporations, founder cash-outs, outlandish executive compensation packages, finance, golden parachutes, etc. The whole idea is to make failure somebody else's problem, so that you're set for life regardless of what you do. This takes fear out of the equation, so that (supposedly at least) you can make rational decisions and it becomes a simple dollar-maximization exercise. It'd be an interesting experiment to see if we could take executives out of the decision-making loop and just have AI (or aggregated intelligence) make the decisions, since computers are generally better at it than humans and certainly don't have pesky emotions or egos to get in the way.