I isn't too surprising is it? Companies are made up of people and people are made up of complex psychologies.

Something startups do is the they take people who may have very little experience at the senior level and thrust them up there into the limelight. That is contrasted with people who come up through the ranks of a large company, adjusting along the way to the norms of corporate behavior and the company's notion of right and wrong.

I am fascinated by the lack of repercussions for investors. I had thought GroupOn and Zynga would have taught people the risks but no such luck.