Matt Mullenweg and entrepreneurial hubris
I don't know you or what you do in your spare time, but if you keep relatively abreast of news in the tech space, you'll be familiar with Matt Mullenweg's very public fight with WP Engine, which shows no sign of letting up any time soon. It's tempting for you to believe that Mullenweg is uniquely bad in character, and that you or your underlings could never disgrace themselves publicly in the way he has. Do not believe this. There are millions of little Matt Mullenwegs in this world, and if you've founded a start-up, you're at serious risk of being one of them.
Now, there has been some speculation about Mullenweg currently being in the midst of a manic episode, and I think there is grounds to believe that. Still, I know quite a few people that suffer or have suffered from manic episodes, and none of them, to the best of my knowledge, have held an entire technical ecosystem hostage over a perceived injury to their ego in quite the same way that Mullenweg seems intent on doing, so mania isn't a particularly effective explanation in this instance.
Rather, the underlying flaw causing Mullenweg's behaviour is hubris: extreme pride coupled with dangerous overconfidence and complacency. In legal usage in classical Greece, it would translate as the use of violence or other coercion to shame a victim for one's own gratification, or in the words of Aristotle:
