Jokes that he has overcome the desire to be liked.
"I have overcome the desire to be liked 🤣"
Is wanting to be liked a problem when building a company?
Q1102 answers2023-2026
Short answer
He would love to be liked, but he will not do things contrary to the best interest of the companies in order to be liked a bit more. Doing so would diminish the company's success probability.
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He would love to be liked, but he will not do things contrary to the best interest of the companies in order to be liked a bit more. Doing so would diminish the company's success probability. He is okay with being disliked by some; he guessed that of people who know anything about him, maybe 70–80% like him, and he would not have a quarter billion followers if they were mostly there to hate on what he says.
"am I going to do things that are contrary to the best interest of the companies in order to be liked a bit more? I'm not"
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