I’m no fan of the people you’re talking about myself.
But once we start going down that road we run smack on into companies with like the sovereign wealth fund in Riyadh or (to my embarrassment) Thiel or any number of people who make SBF look like the clueless, entitled, amoral but ultimately strictly small-change knucklehead he is.
There are some truly scary people invested in important companies. Do we hold all the founders to account for that or none of them? It’s not fair to pick and choose.
But once we start going down that road we run smack on into companies with like the sovereign wealth fund in Riyadh or (to my embarrassment) Thiel or any number of people who make SBF look like the clueless, entitled, amoral but ultimately strictly small-change knucklehead he is.
There are some truly scary people invested in important companies. Do we hold all the founders to account for that or none of them? It’s not fair to pick and choose.