Why not hide it? If you did something very stupid at 17, something of which there is public record for everyone to find with a background check, do you still have to go around telling it to everyone for the rest of your life?

You have paid for your stupidity and life goes on. In this case life has certainly moved on and it doesn't seem like he is secretly creating a 4th reich in his free time.

Of course if you can do something easy to hide it like spelling your name better great. It has been a long time, but some people don't seem to understand this and seem to want criminals to be punished forever.

Why bother about this?

>Why not hide it?

Integrity.

Are you suggesting this founder should have been more public about his past? Based on what is being reported he seems to have pulled himself up by his bootstraps and made something of himself under terrible circumstances. He has clearly done good and that is what people will judge. His bad decision doesn't define him, yet you would have him tell everyone so that he reaches your bar of being "open and remorseful."

It also doesn't bode well that he's also entered a fundamentally evil business as an adult. Just shows an absolute rotten moral character.

KKK supporters and such can be redeemed, but it takes work and reflection.