I've posted elsewhere wondering along those same lines. With these types of people, it isn't so much that they're straight up crooks in the way that we would th

I've posted elsewhere wondering along those same lines. With these types of people, it isn't so much that they're straight up crooks in the way that we would think, but that they seem to have a worldview where they're entitled to greatness and no physical laws can prevent them from doing something if only they want it enough. When you take this worldview in a high dose, and combine it with genuine intelligence, skill, and a bit of luck, then you get Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. and all they've accomplished. Take out the intelligence and skill, and you get Anna Delvey and Holmes. I can even kind of see that, from a VC's perspective, this trait may be even more important to them than the intelligence and skill. Their business is built around investing in 20 crazy-ambitious ideas with the expectation that 19 will fail, but the other one will go big enough to pay off the loss of the other 19 and still provide huge gains. Better then to stick with the delusionally optimistic rather than reasonable and sane business plans that will probably make decent money but will never grow 1000x.