> So I agree, no reason to give him any more attention then any of the many other half assed villains which lucked out in human history. I mean that version of

> So I agree, no reason to give him any more attention then any of the many other half assed villains which lucked out in human history. I mean that version of the story is pretty interesting too, right? One can see a lot of parallels between startup culture, really. You start off with a dumb idea, you pitch it over and over for years till you find a sucker, you get funding because of nepotism / connections, your dumb idea fails but you stumble across something that works on the way, then you move fast and break things (like... the entire indigenous population).