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Too emotional, talk too much. Try addressing those, update us in a year.

Will do :-)

You may not be ready to be a CEO-- you CERTAINLY aren't ready to be someone's co-founder and partner.

You can't make judgments without knowing the business plan and how they executed it. It's quite likely the entire venture was doomed and this guy held it together long after it would have been unsalvageable otherwise.

From what I've observed, part of being a founder and CEO is having a huge amount of confidence in yourself. I think erring on the side of overconfidence is much better than the other direction.

People who are really successful in these roles seem to be completely unafraid in business situations where a lot of fear would probably be warranted.

And there are always lots of people standing by and ready to offer up plenty criticism...