Seems like historical founders/CEOs like e.g. Hewlett and Packard were relatively decent people despite being immensely successful. So at least it was possible

Seems like historical founders/CEOs like e.g. Hewlett and Packard were relatively decent people despite being immensely successful. So at least it was possible back in the day (of course after this many years a lot of details were lost and overall standards and expectations were very different back then).