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Let's say you meet someone at a bar whom you proceed to tell about your plans to build a spaceship, and the stranger says 'oh yeah, I know ships, I know space,

Let's say you meet someone at a bar whom you proceed to tell about your plans to build a spaceship, and the stranger says 'oh yeah, I know ships, I know space, we can definitely get a prototype spaceship done'. You believe him, with apparently doing zero due diligence. Months go by, and there is no spaceship. The stranger you met at the bar then confesses 'I don't actually know anything about building spaceships.' Replace the location and area of expertise, and this is the same story that transpired here. Sure, the other party is a fraud, but the eponymous "chump" is not the other party, it is the first party.

1123581321 5y ago
Is this bar at an aerospace engineering conference? Come on. Anyway, the author admitted to naivety and I thought their list of things to check at the beginning reflected what they learned.
- Ansil849 5y ago
  It's very easy to write a post trashing someone else. Very, very easy. Much of that trashing may or may not be deserved, we don't know because we only have one party's account of it. What we do know, however, is the behavior of one party - the author. And the whole posts reeks of a failure to take personal accountability, minor add-on sentences here and there notwithstanding.
  - 1123581321 5y ago
    I don’t think we’re obligated to come to a judgment. The article resonates with people because they’ve had similar experiences (e.g., elsewhere in the thread I mentioned I’ve been both kinds of cofounders.) It would be great if the other cofounder would share what happened to them and how they saw things, but in the meantime it’s fine for one person to tell their story. Most personal accounts are written by the person who experienced it and comments aren’t solicited from all involved parties as they would be in a journalistic article.
  - space_rock 5y ago
    But most personal accounts are truthful. Unless it's a criminal conspiracies to defame the other personal most statements will be truthful. It might not be all the truth but this writing is still a witness to events

1123581321 5y ago

Is this bar at an aerospace engineering conference? Come on. Anyway, the author admitted to naivety and I thought their list of things to check at the beginning reflected what they learned.

Ansil849 5y ago
It's very easy to write a post trashing someone else. Very, very easy. Much of that trashing may or may not be deserved, we don't know because we only have one party's account of it. What we do know, however, is the behavior of one party - the author. And the whole posts reeks of a failure to take personal accountability, minor add-on sentences here and there notwithstanding.
- 1123581321 5y ago
  I don’t think we’re obligated to come to a judgment. The article resonates with people because they’ve had similar experiences (e.g., elsewhere in the thread I mentioned I’ve been both kinds of cofounders.) It would be great if the other cofounder would share what happened to them and how they saw things, but in the meantime it’s fine for one person to tell their story. Most personal accounts are written by the person who experienced it and comments aren’t solicited from all involved parties as they would be in a journalistic article.
- space_rock 5y ago
  But most personal accounts are truthful. Unless it's a criminal conspiracies to defame the other personal most statements will be truthful. It might not be all the truth but this writing is still a witness to events