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I'd like to chip in an experience that I got to go through, along with several of my friends. We had the misfortune to come up with a great new product, something that would make a lot of money. We went around to VC's trying to get funding. We went through "due diligence", and then we got totally screwed. There is a big company out there that got started through acts of total fraud, deception and theft. Somehow I imagine it is not the only one. We got to spend years and years in court suing, before finally settling for an insultingly small settlement because we didn't have the resources to fight in court for decades. The most amazing thing I learned from the experience was not how badly we got screwed, it was how routine it all was.

Now, tell me again how I'm supposed to fall down and worship CEO's? Because from what I have experienced, they are ethically challenged at best, and I'm really struggling to keep my comment as mild as that.

If I really wanted to curse someone, I would simply wish that they got to live through what I've gotten to live through. Go ahead and worship CEO's if you want to, after they've kicked you in the face a few times you might change your tune.

And no, I'm not going to say what company it was. I can't afford to be sued by billionaires.

Well first off you got ripped by venture capitalists which aren't the same thing as CEOs (my old boss called them "loan sharks". Secondly not all CEOs and or venture capitalists are lieing theiving bags of crap. Thirdly the basic rules still apply, with CEOs and VCs there would be NO companies ANYWHERE and NO jobs period. I've been kicked in the face plenty, my outline for why the dot-com bubble burst comes from bitter first hand experience. Doesn't change the basic facts, CEOs and VCs make companies, companies make jobs. If you had incorporated and copyrighted before seeking venture capital (which is the right way to do things, never show anybody anything that isn't copyrighted ever) YOU would be a CEO (and maybe a VC) right now. Still willing to say they're all evil people?