Founders

millionaire founder: 
what's the most profitable thing to sell?
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multimillionaire founder: 
what's the most ethical way to exploit people?
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billionaire founder: 
what's the most profitable way to exploit people?

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Tend to disagree

Stihl doesn’t exploit people. Billion dollar business in Germany

Würth doesn’t exploit people. Billion dollar company in Germany

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

both are exceptions to the rule

having sociopaths and psychopaths with a total disregard for accountability in charge of business leads to cronyism and exploitation, among other things

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there's a correlation between the dark triad personality traits and success in business, and that also comes with a side effect of being an exploitative douchebag along the way

you can disagree with clinical research all you want

as for "real world results show being a pure douche doesn't fly over", check who recently got elected to EU parliament: a notorious far-left psychopath from Italy with a criminal record and prison time; nice reward, right?

from tech, I don't have to even go very far: Adam Neumann (WeWork) comes first to mind, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Bob Swan (Intel); they all have dark triad personality elements

I disagree hard! 

There is a correlation between determination, persistence and minimal compromise on achieving set goals.

That may come of as being an exploitative douchebag to your eyes or actually be one

Real world results show being a pure douche doesn’t fly forever