The sort of people who tend to excel at raising money from VC's and gain media attention tend to be the more assholish sorts. I've seen this also. Raising VC i

The sort of people who tend to excel at raising money from VC's and gain media attention tend to be the more assholish sorts. I've seen this also. Raising VC is a human process. You need to convince some high status individual(s) that your plan has more upside than risk. The most successful way to do that is to sell something. So the sorts of people that succeed tend to be more salesman, than engineer. Now add in huge amounts of money, plus some ego and you have a recipe for drama and backstabbing.