> It appears that there is a sizable audience who will hear that and conclude he's a subject matter super genius and that you're a total idiot. Many of them th

> It appears that there is a sizable audience who will hear that and conclude he's a subject matter super genius and that you're a total idiot. Many of them the titans of SV no less, Sequoia being chief among them; honestly, I called this imbecile being in jail in mid-late '21 when he announced he was going to start influencing US politics. He was an idiot then and he has proven himself and even greater one with time. Likely mentally ill, as well. I do want to underscore that this scammer would have NEVER gotten the chance he had were it not for the connections his family has at Stanford, and thus VC, and the litany of connections that followed. This article is a must read [0], as were the testimonies given by gyus like Scarmocci (I'm not going to correct his name), because it all boils down to the fact that he was the child of privilisge and connected to all the power-brokers in SV. SBF, FTX and Alameda is and will always remain a a Silicon Valley VC backed cluster***, and it must be noted that this has nothing to do with us and everything to do with THEM. > Silicon Valley could be said to be in the business of reality distortion. Fundraising for startups can be as much about narrative as about economic fundamentals. Most venture capital portfolios are filled with companies that will fail because their model is wrong, their product won’t land, their vision of the future won’t pan out. The high dropout rate means that everyone is in search of the one thing that will reach escape velocity. Everyone is looking for an epochal success—a Steve Jobs, a Jeff Bezos. That creates a degree of hunger—even desperation—that can be exploited by someone who arrives with a great story at the right moment. 0: https://www.wired.com/story/why-silicon-valley-falls-for-frauds/ https://www.wired.com/story/why-silicon-valley-falls-for-fra...