Comment by immibis

Every currently rich person has done a million fraud-like-but-maybe-not-actually-fraudulent things like this and that's how they're rich, so it's not completely insane. You definitely don't get rich by staying within the white painted lines. This particular one is more on the insane side of the spectrum... but do you remember that Elon Musk had a large golden parachute contract at PayPal, meaning they had to pay him a lot of money if they let him go, and then he made really stupid decisions so they had to let him go, and give him a lot of money?