Mean People Fail
Mean people succeed, good people succeed. Succeeding by being mean is pretty lame, everybody can do that.<p>However, if you can succeed  while still being good, then you are really talented, then you are a real founder at least in my book. There's not many of those, but there are a couple. I think startups have made it possible to create more good & successful people as they can become very successful very young, without being made ruthless by the business world over 10 or 20 years.