Once you get them in a state where they can't lie, ask directly how trustworthy they are
What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?
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#12"What's your opinion on Effective Altruism?" If they say anything positive, you know to run the other direction.
What if they aren't really familiar with what that is? I know it's associated with SBF's embezzlement somehow, but if I just heard the term I'd think, "It's gotta be better than ineffective altruism"
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#13Paying attention to the micro interactions of a person (or CEO) with others especially those who have no business interest with them can give a good view of their morality. These can be simple things like a conversation they have with random strangers and their judgement on that.
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If you look back in history "fear of god" and religion are responsible for more of the most evil acts in it than almost anything.
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#15With these kind of things I don't think asking questions is really going to tell you much.
People can present themselves differently than they are, and especially people with lower morales will have no problem presenting themselves differently if that is in their interest. Look at pretty much any big company CEO.
If you do need to gauge someone, look at their history, look at their actions, and look at their incentives. If they don't align with what they're saying you should not expect them to act any different than they did before.
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#16- "Do you support tech workers unionizing if they choose to?"
- "Should Palestine should be free?"
- "Do Black Lives Matter?"
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#17Can you even trust that their answers are candid and what they really think?
Of course not. But it's possible to catch the dishonest ones in a lie.
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#18If trustworthiness were able to be gauged by a single question world political history would be much more boring.
That being said, asking a CEO to take responsibility for a mistake is a pretty good indicator.
If they own the mistake. That's good. If they own the mistake and try to fix it. That's better. If they own the mistake and ask the people wronged how to make amends. They're probably not a CEO.
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#19This is a good question and there are many good responses here. I wish there was a silver bullet, but after decades of startups and launching new companies and transactions and exits, I've seen even the most ethical people do questionable things the minute even modest sums of money were involved.
You really have to take off your rose-tinted glasses and try to get to know what their core values are. That is the only way.
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#20Ask them what are they going to do if their workforce decides to unionize.
Tell them that their response is going to be publicized beforehand.