That is a good point. It is more of a spectrum. I try not to use this term lightly but I have never met a person with such a disregard for their own equity. The

That is a good point. It is more of a spectrum. I try not to use this term lightly but I have never met a person with such a disregard for their own equity. They boost their ego by constantly speaking about themselves in a grandiose way, yet have achieved nothing of substance. It seems they have this reality built through consistently lying that they wish to project on the world. I mean bold easily discoverable lies. These lies are being uncovered and this person is now being found out, causing them to act in malicious ways. Being a rational human being and engineer by training, it was juts inconceivable how to go though daily life like this. I try to live in objective reality, but this was just a fantasy world to this guy. I have never really met "crazy" or understood in a direct sense what "psychopathic" meant but to associate certain word I would attribute the following as to what I mean as psychopathic with this individual: "a pathological liar", "self-destructive", "narcissistic", "irrational", "vitrolic". I mean this person thought he was the next coming of Marc Andreessen. In an objective sense it is unfortunate that there are actually people who live like this. But I wrote this article to warn start-up founders that are just starting out looking for a co-founder or a "mentor". I was just a PhD engineering student when I started, I did not know how to adequately gauge business prowess or to read through a person like this. I can say I've learned what NOT to do and what NOT to be like. Now I am a less trusting and more guarded person.