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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.

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