I don't think Ruja / Buterin are the same. But I do believe there was a point when Ruja believed that she could actually create a currency. Once she invited MLM

I don't think Ruja / Buterin are the same. But I do believe there was a point when Ruja believed that she could actually create a currency. Once she invited MLM grifters to peddle something they didn't understand and were hugely successful in it, it became an opportunity to continue the grift. The parallel is that both started something that has become too big to fail in the eyes of the founders. Ruja is 100x the grifter that Buterin is but both used an approach where they have been promising something for so long that it's hard to walk back on that "promise". That type of personality is very common in Tech I think