There seem to be plenty of awful CEOs here, particularly among the generation who first sold companies during the .com boom.
For all the talk about how it's important to have a strong, engineering-centric founding team, there is a lot of money going into dubious startups here run by non-technical founders who seem to be just doing the CEO / "startup" thing more for the image, delegating as much as possible so they can leave early to cart their kids around and go to concerts with their buddies.
Obviously Nguyen sounds like a particularly atrocious example, but it doesn't surprise me at all that someone like him thrives in this environment.
For all the talk about how it's important to have a strong, engineering-centric founding team, there is a lot of money going into dubious startups here run by non-technical founders who seem to be just doing the CEO / "startup" thing more for the image, delegating as much as possible so they can leave early to cart their kids around and go to concerts with their buddies.
Obviously Nguyen sounds like a particularly atrocious example, but it doesn't surprise me at all that someone like him thrives in this environment.