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VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks

VCs don't care if you're a nice person. They want founders who take massive risks.

But it's much easier to withdraw $1 million a year to live off, travel the world and have some wild parties, and put the rest in S&P 500 index funds earning asked Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya, who moved with his family from Sri Lanka to Canada and worked at a Burger King to help support them. Elon Musk had a difficult childhood and became estranged from his father; Thiel was gay and closeted; Jeff Bezos was adopted — but they were also privileged in other respects.

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