People almost always act first, then rationalize later. Whenever someone gives a profound argument for their behavior, it's rationalization rather than reality almost 100% of the time.<p>Thus when someone claims that their mohawk and f-bombs are part of a calculated persona, you can almost always be sure that that was originally just the way that person was, then came the rationalization that it's a calculated move to achieve some goal, which in turn reinforced and exaggerated the original behavior.<p>The upshot is, if he worked at McDonald's rather than his own startup, he'd probably still have a mohawk and drop f-bombs. He's just a mohawk wearing, f-bomb dropping kinda guy.<p>(That's not meant to be judgmental.)
What's the big deal?<p>Calling yourself a CEO in a company of that size is pretty pretentious. Maybe being pretentious part of his well planned out strategy?<p>This <i>might</i> be interesting if it was a CEO of a company that was worthy of having a CEO. Probably not.
I have 5/8th inch stretched ears, and a bold, black tattoos on my forearms: <a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v184/59/117/14200296/n14200296_35330111_5837.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v184/59/117/14200...</a><p>If anything, they helped secure my investment. For a few months after he invested, one of my investors kept talking about how much he loved that I was a scrappy young guy who did what he wanted and wouldn't take shit from people, yet listened to advice.<p>I'd agree with Matt, it's all about the public persona you want to have.