And I think board members are not supposed to have conflicts of interest through insider connections and yet the VC ecosystem mostly operates by insider connect

And I think board members are not supposed to have conflicts of interest through insider connections and yet the VC ecosystem mostly operates by insider connections. I'm not condoning what this guy did but the reason he was able to do all of that is not because he was being shady (although from a specific perspective he was being shady I think it is a matter of degrees when it comes to this stuff). It is because the system is set up to enable exactly this kind of behavior and he just happened to overstep a few too many boundaries whereas the people that have been playing this game for a while have a much more measured approach. So instead of jumping on the bandwagon and burning this guy maybe we should reflect on how the ecosystem operates as a whole and whether the rules are slightly rigged. He'll have his day in court but if the rest of us don't learn from the experience then not really sure if all the wasted bits on the matter are worth it in the end.