Yeah, there are a lot of environmental issues that need to be managed to get the most out of everyone. That's why the overall team need to be balanced.<p>I think that people stating that things <i>ARE</i> a certain way or somebody <i>BEING</i> at a certain level, could gain benefit from looking at Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics or more particulary trying expressing themselves in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime</a><p>It's not bad being judgemental however, and I think that going with ones gut feeling regarding co-founders is a good thing. I wish I had had no tolerance for bullshit and done away with some poor performing co-founders early on, because the net effect would have been better for everyone. It's the team that counts, and those people who fanatically prefer to do waterfall development and enterprise java solutions don't belong in a fast paced startup environment, because they cannot deliver good results in this setting, they count on orders coming in from "management" instead of being proactive themselves..