Why so many people with poor character technology entrepreneurs have become millionaires!

Successful founders, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, have one thing in common: they all have some innate talent, and we call this talent "entrepreneurial DNA."

The DNA allows these entrepreneurs to have something unusual, such as "strong resilience" and "the ability to take risks".

These successful entrepreneurs often have other qualities, such as arrogance and even bad character.

Recently, I met a lot of people, and we discussed the rising star Travis Kalanick of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Kalanick is the CEO of Uber, the car-sharing company's latest valuation, which has reached 3.4 billion dollars. Many people compare Kalanick with the entrepreneurial legends of Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison.

But people's perception of Kalanick is very serious, some call him "excellent". and others, called him "bastard".

One of my friends, talking about Kalanick, said: "Sometimes, a jerk can create a good business." ”

Another friend of mine said he was puzzled by the many people who had Kalanick as an example. "Why would anyone want to be like him?" he says. Becoming a jerk is not a good thing. ”

Kalanick did not respond to these negative comments.

Outside of Silicon Valley, many people agree, after all, that most people do not want to be a bad character. But in Silicon Valley, arrogance has a big market, and it seems that investors will provide more cash for arrogant entrepreneurs.

The founders of many companies have had this moment, and some of them have even made people feel weird, leaving the entrepreneur with a bad reputation for life.

Mark Zuckerberg, for example, now has a net worth of 20 billion dollars, but many people know he has expelled his friend Eduardosaverin from Facebook. And he has stolen business ideas from Winklevoss.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is currently suing his classmate, Reggie Brown, after Spiegel kicked Brown out of the company shortly after Snapchat was online. In addition, Spiegel hated his parents and even cut off family photos.

Twitter's founders have also suppressed each other: Noah Glass was kicked out of the company. Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey have both been CEO and have been taken down.

Even the great Steve Jobs is often called "bad character". Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs's biographer, called Mr. Jobs "good jobs" and "bad Jobs", respectively. For example, one time jobs rushed into the company's boardroom and called everyone "fucking dickless assholes".

Many have said that they have seen jobs repeatedly yell at others. In 80%, Jobs was right to curse. But we still don't want to live in such an environment, who says winners are entitled to be jerks?

So, can people with good character be able to achieve the same success? In Silicon Valley, where the founders look down on homeless people for all the bad habits of Steve Jobs, do people with good personalities have room to live?

Investors have no unified opinion on this issue. A VC enterprise has refused to provide investment for Uber, the reason is Kalanick character is too bad, unable to make investors like.

Other investors seem to be struggling. Eileen Burbidge said: "On the one hand, I think good character is very important." On the other hand, I think as an investor, you should decide whether to invest, not the founder's character. ”

Marksuster, an investor in Los Angeles, argues that "integrity" should be added to the DNA of the venture.

"I think entrepreneurs are honest and honest and important to most investors," he says. Unfortunately, both of these qualities are not a guarantee of making money. ”

Some people familiar with Kalanick say that Kalanick's success stems from his arrogance. Kalanick, a former colleague, said: "If Kalanick is not so arrogant, he may not be able to achieve what he has now." It is because he has the ' I want to master the world ' ambition, he can achieve the present success. ”

Another business leader, Paul Graham, believes that entrepreneurs can succeed while maintaining good character.

Graham had a principle that he would never invest in bad-character entrepreneurs because he couldn't get along with them. He believes that entrepreneurs and investors need to work together often, and that when entrepreneurs and investors are on the wrong side, it's even worse than a couple's divorce.

"We don't invest in bad-character entrepreneurs because when we invest in an entrepreneur, we have to get along with them often, and now I can't get along with people I don't like," says Graham. Now that we've invested more than 630 startups, when the founders of these companies get together, we find that they're getting along. So we found that filtering out those bastards has another advantage, that is, the companies we invest in can also be very united. ”

He added: "The founders of many successful companies have good personalities." In fact, I've observed that people with good character have an advantage over those bastards. To make an enterprise bigger, its founder must have a sense of mission, and the person with good character has a stronger mission. On the contrary, the power of those bastards is only money or power. ”