Yeah of course, these people treat you better after you snap. Investors don't respect nice people. You need to create fear. As my friend once told me, "you need to be a killer."
They can't have killers on the loose hating their guts, they need to bribe them into compliance. That's what funding is really about. Unfortunately, it's a bad idea because it puts killers into positions of authority. Maybe that's why society is so messed up now.