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Yes I remember Batmanghelidjh, there's been a tendency within the public sector especially of being afraid of offending anyone to the point of tacitly allowing
by jack_riminton 3y ago
Yes I remember Batmanghelidjh, there's been a tendency within the public sector especially of being afraid of offending anyone to the point of tacitly allowing massive grifting and fraud.
I remember once being on a video call with a quasi-VC but for social enterprises and I asked what I thought to be an entirely banal question: "how do you measure the effectiveness of the organisations you fund and ensure that they're not misappropriating funds?" I may as well have spat in their tea, the video call ended soon afterwards!
- easytiger 3y agoThat anecdote rings a lot of bells for me even in business and investing. Alas a vaguely cynical person can be proven right in an era of pseudo babble. Some very very modest achievements i might have had came in a room of people where I politely, professionally, pointed out amidst a silence that the offer they were about to buy was based on quicksand. If i had done so rudely they would have spent the money and fired me