No, investors will slowly cook you into being a complete prick every time but you don’t need to begin as one. If they fail to turn you into a prick then they’ll replace you with someone else.
Only way to make it big without shitting on people is by using your own money and work to grow naturally - but even in that case you most likely will end up in some situation where someone will force you to choose between giving up either your humanity or your dreams.
Is it the law that you have to be a complete prick to be CEO of any kind of tech company now?
No, investors will slowly cook you into being a complete prick every time but you don’t need to begin as one. If they fail to turn you into a prick then they’ll replace you with someone else.
Only way to make it big without shitting on people is by using your own money and work to grow naturally - but even in that case you most likely will end up in some situation where someone will force you to choose between giving up either your humanity or your dreams.
Always has been