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> If she'd done the same thing at a university she'd have gotten away with it scot free. But she didn't though. She was rejected from academia, which is why sh
by ModernMech 2y ago
> If she'd done the same thing at a university she'd have gotten away with it scot free.
But she didn't though. She was rejected from academia, which is why she turned to private capital. Her fraud worked on private investors, not government funding agencies. She couldn't even convince her professor to get behind her idea, but private funds threw millions of dollars at her.
- mike_hearn 2y agoI haven't read her bio, so would be interested to know more about her being rejected from academia. The official story is that she dropped out during her undergrad and immediately formed a company. Or are you referring to her professors telling her they didn't think her idea would work? If so then they were right, but her profs are not the people handing out grants. There's no sign she wouldn't have got a grant for such a thing given that government funding is justified by the fact that it can fund long shot ideas that some say won't work, and people doing things that clearly can't work regularly get grants.