Founders

Why do so many famous Founders have a reputation for being complete assholes to their employees? 

Elon, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. 

Were they successful because of this behavior, or in spite of it?

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If you have an opinion about something and you're not willing to concede, people think you're an asshole — doesn't even matter if you're right in the end.

Maybe it is more about the attitude when holding and defending an opinion rather than the fact of holding and defending an opinion. Everyone has a choice of how they decide not to concede. This can be done with respect to others. Saying that, I agree that for some people disagreeing with them  = being an asshole.

The challenge is precisely the lack of recognition and the disappearance of this social consensus layer that allows people to say and do whatever they want and think it is okay or contrarily be offended by anything and everything. Applying this to entrepreneurship, the most controversial are always the ones we know of.

I don't think I fully agree. In most human societies there is consensus around what respect entails and its codes. There is of course always a level of subjectivity in all human interaction but  I would argue that using swear words while shouting in an open space is pretty much considered by most as a negative for e.g.

The challenge with words like “attitude” and “respect” are both opinionated nouns defined by each individuals threshold so measuring by that doesn’t matter.

For conceding, core values like “disagree and commit” allow visionaries to lower discourse insulating “bad attitude” and “disrespect”.