Success Quote by An Wang

It reads like a rebuttal to the startup-world reflex of treating every disagreement as a cage match. Wang’s line argues that contradiction is often just mirrored chaos: if someone is spiraling into bad logic, meeting them with sharper bad logic doesn’t restore order, it just raises the volume. The phrasing “running mad also” is doing quiet work here. It’s not calling the other person stupid so much as describing a contagious tempo - once you match their frantic premise-by-premise combat, you’re participating in the same breakdown you claim to oppose.

Coming from An Wang, the subtext feels managerial as much as moral. This is a businessman who built a technology empire in an industry where status and certainty can be as volatile as markets. In that environment, “contradict” is rarely just intellectual correction; it’s public loss of face, an invitation to dig in, to escalate, to defend ego instead of truth. “Instruct him that contradicts us” reframes the encounter: keep your footing, slow the conversation, turn it from sparring into guidance.

The intent isn’t softness. It’s control. Instruction is a power move because it implies you’re steering the situation toward clarity, not scoring points. There’s also a pragmatic kindness embedded in the metaphor of madness: the goal is not to punish irrationality but to contain it before it becomes institutional - before one person’s panic becomes a team’s culture.

Wang’s sentence is basically an executive rule for surviving conflict: don’t let someone else’s disordered energy dictate your method. You don’t win by matching heat; you win by staying coherent.