I remember one famous startup I was in, one that went public, where the founder/ceo was genuinely mean, as in a nasty, litigious, selfish, self-centered, emotio

I remember one famous startup I was in, one that went public, where the founder/ceo was genuinely mean, as in a nasty, litigious, selfish, self-centered, emotionally immature son-of-a-bitch, and ran the place like a tyrant. I quit two years in. Simply could not stand being in the same room as that ceo. But did he fail? No and yes. No, financially; he made over a hundred million. Yes, personally, I would say; his reputation as a tyrant has stuck with him, and most friends I know who worked at that company would never in a million years work for him again. He's the only truly mean-to-the-core founder/ceo I've dealt with in startups.