To Be Nice or Not to Be Nice?

I stumbled upon this two-year-old article Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice, written by Paul Graham (a co-founder or Y Combinator), whom I honestly respect, and I decided to explain why I disagree. Not that I think we shouldn't be nice. Not at all. But I do think that "being nice" is not a solution for organizational, management, marketing, sales, or business development problems. Moreover, in most cases it is actually not safe for founders to be nice.

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