Mean People Fail. Paul Graham

Another reason mean founders lose is that they can't get the best people to work for them. They can hire people who will put up with them because they need a job. But the best people have other options. A mean person can't convince the best people to work for him unless he is super convincing. And while having the best people helps any organization, it's critical for startups.

Mean People Fail. Paul Graham

Las empresas que entran en los mercados con innovaciones disruptivas, muchas de ellas Startups conducidas por emprendedores, no ganan por “atacar”. Ganan al “trascender”. Siempre hay excepciones, por supuesto, pero normalmente la forma de ganar es adelantarse, no detenerse a pelear.

Mean People Fail. Paul Graham

…being mean makes you stupid. That's why I hate fights. You never do your best work in a fight, because fights are not sufficiently general. Winning is always a function of the situation and the people involved. You don't win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. And yet fighting is just as much work as thinking about real problems. Which is particularly painful to someone who cares how their brain is used: your brain goes fast but you get nowhere, like a car spinning its wheels.