Of the 3 morons who come to mind as morons who raised money, one did so circa 2000 when it was easy and another one managed to tweak someone into acq-hiring his

Of the 3 morons who come to mind as morons who raised money, one did so circa 2000 when it was easy and another one managed to tweak someone into acq-hiring his first startup as a charity (and thus secure funding for his next act). The third is from a prominent family and got funded on connections and nothing else. It's depressing to watch people like that get funding. I have no faith that any of these king-makers really have much sense. No idea if I could do their jobs better, because it may be that sizing people up is just an unsolvable problem that we've tricked ourselves into believing we can hack (i.e. fooled by randomness) but I know I wouldn't be worse.