No, I meant that 'hypo' means a lack, and 'hyper' means an excess, so I would expect a 'hypo'-manic CEO to be some sort of depressive and not look like a great candidate for funding and a 'hyper'-manic CEO to be extremely energetic and convincing and voluble and so at an advantage with VCs.
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One of the great secrets of the Valley is that investors love hypomanic CEOs.
hypomanic?
Yeah, true clinical mania looks a lot like psychosis.
No, I meant that 'hypo' means a lack, and 'hyper' means an excess, so I would expect a 'hypo'-manic CEO to be some sort of depressive and not look like a great candidate for funding and a 'hyper'-manic CEO to be extremely energetic and convincing and voluble and so at an advantage with VCs.
Clinically it's used as "not quite mania, but close".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania
Huh. TIL. Goes to show that understanding Greek or Latin roots doesn't always help you.