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> she was distracted with the media and having dinners with politicians. She wasn't distracted, she was the distraction, the pretty young pretend-genius (with

• TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
  CEOs are primarily sales people who exist to sell the company to investors, and to a lesser extent to employees. A talent for strategy and execution is useful but not essential. If you execute without selling, you don't have a company. If you sell without executing you can always write it off as a super-exciting best-effort failed adventure from which you learned a lot etc. As long as you avoid fraud, obvs. So yes - Holmes was the sales person who bought her own hype. Sunny seems to have been the executioner.
  • selimthegrim 4y ago
    Executor?
• dmix 4y ago
  > Do you think Sunny would have gotten all those investments from old military guys? You're reading far too much into the wording of my comment. Yes, being distracted by dinners with politicians and investors was a critical part of the scam. Regardless, having a "real" company is what allowed her have that image. She just wanted to maintain the fantasy lifestyle and didn't care how. The hard day-to-day grunt work was done by Sunny, while she barely talked to employees. VCs engage in plenty of due diligence into portfolio companies. After 5-6yrs the persuasive pitch deck + founder is no longer good enough to avoid questions. That's where well run company protects the lie long-term, the meat and potatoes.