Or alternatively, it's evidence of the kind of ethics that helps you succeed in business, and the VCs made the most profitable decision. Consider, e.g. Steve Jobs scamming Steve Wozniak out of the bonus for Wozniak's Breakout circuit board design.

I strongly believe there are better ways to achieve success that do not come at such a complete loss of ethical/moral standards.

I've found the less intelligent someone is, the more likely they are to act this way. Perhaps an evolutionary defense mechanism. Lacking the ability to really process things at a 2nd/3rd Order level of thought perhaps frees them of the guilt that would result from doing such a thing?

Mark Zuckerberg is a fabulously wealthy and by all accounts intelligent individual, but many actions like using failed login attempts to access people's email accounts [1] certainly suggest "a complete loss of ethical/moral standards". While mediocre success may be possible, history is riddled with examples of success coming by compromising ethics and morals.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-i...

Give it time. When I meant success, I meant lasting success, not a hit and run. Given what his company is responsible for, I don't see them lasting forever.

Without your explicit permission, that's committing an illegal act called "copyright infringement" in case that wasn't clear.