The ways I could imagine reconciling it:<p>1) &quot;Good people&quot; is relative, and even good people still sometimes do bad things.<p>2) No detector is perfect, and so a metric of &quot;no YC company has done anything bad&quot; seems strong. Something like, &quot;YC companies are less bad on average than others&quot;.<p>3) Their definition of &quot;good&quot; is not 100% congruent with yours.<p>4) The high-pressure environment of startups is a double bind. If you don&#x27;t do at least some bad things you fail, or at least lose out to non-good people.