Although I would love to agree with you in theory, in practice in Silicon Valley everyone is selling first and building second (or not at all). It's not unlikel

Although I would love to agree with you in theory, in practice in Silicon Valley everyone is selling first and building second (or not at all). It's not unlikely that 500 was fundraising with one hand and investing with the other, and when their master sales person left, the process got a little tangled.