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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have met uber wealthy donors when I worked for a nonprofit and in university administration, occasionally at embassies where they blew in to have lunch with the ambassador (for kicks you can search that Epstein database for the word “ambassador” to see who rolled out the red carpet for the pedophile). In short I have  witnessed that dynamic where some rich guy or rich dude shows up and everybody bows and scrapes and treats everything they say as brilliant. Physicists have to sit and listen to that dude expound on his theory because he read one physics article . Like those scenes in succession where people have to pretend that Connor’s wife’s play is going to win a Tony Award. The rich have a distorted view of their intellect, their contributions to the world, their importance because they get this treatment everywhere they go. And yeah I recognized a couple of names from the list from our nonprofit. [/quote]
Very true.
I think being fawned over is a motivation for a lot of people who want power. I also think a lot of men want power so they can get women. It's so simple but true, and the women are expected to fawn over them too. The Emperor's New Clothes is the truth.

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After a traditional post-MBA corporate role, I took a role at an early startup for a while. This was after interviewing at several startups that seemed to have zero substance and I couldn’t even figure out what they were selling or what my job would be. I chose the one I ended up as because it seemed to actually
Have the potential to be doing something real and there were a lot of women.

It was shocking to realize the games people were playing to sustain the founder’s “vision”. The company had no substance yet it did have funding. I tried to follow my official job description for a while and completely floundered. I had been naive and didn’t understand that my role was to basically listen to the founder/CEO and tell him he was awesome and his hare brained ideas were also awesome and totally workable.

It was tragic to watch data scientists and engineers attempt to execute the founder's business plan in defiance of the laws of physics, mathematics, time, etc.

The company grew from a place where I knew everyone to 1600 people in less than a year and never got closer to reality. I panicked and quit. Shortly after, they went public and the stock basically went to zero in less than a month and then the company was acquired for its engineers and data scientists. And yet it was still called a “success” because no one had the guts to tell the rich founder man guy that he was full of sh-t.

Also he was unusually short and tubby and gave off the same intense micro-organ energy as a lot of these other guys. [/quote]
This is fascinating and no doubt a common scenario.

It reminds me of Stockton Rush and the Titanic submersible. He spouted word salads and didn't want to hear any evidence of why it wouldn't work. It was like he felt his will alone would make it work. [/quote]

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