>>Of course there's never an excuse for misleading people via outright fraud. Pretty fine and yet hazy line you're drawing there... If you are having to fudge

>>Of course there's never an excuse for misleading people via outright fraud. Pretty fine and yet hazy line you're drawing there... If you are having to fudge numbers, you are doing it wrong. You are playing with the symptoms and ignoring the causes of success. Get the fundamentals right - the a product, a product-market-fit, and then build. If you have to fake it, you are very unlikely to actually make it, at least honestly. (and yes, you can point to fakers who have even had a successful IPO, but I still don't consider the likes of Uber to have made it - $$billions of investment and still searching for a profitable model - a massive waste of capital and talent, and we still don't have our flying cars)