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In any other domain, no one feels the need for conspiracy theories to explain outliers. At anything else except making money, you can do extremely well by being talented, hard-working, and lucky. But anyone who does extremely well at making money must have cheated.
Incidentally, the VC business is the refutation of this view. If cheating were the way to make lots of money, VCs would select founders by looking for good cheaters. And that is definitely not the filter they use.
It's the diametric opposite of the filter Y Combinator used. We actively screened out applicants who seemed dishonest. It not only didn't hurt us; it helped us.
So not only is the conspiracy theory of wealth false, but you can get rich by disproving it.
Cheating is a great way to make money, just ask Theranos’ founders.
Doesn't seem like veracity is something highly selected for though. People sit and listen to Adam Neumann blab on instead of asking for the financials. Seems like VC business isn't binary game of like/dislike cheaters but more a gray poker game of bluffing and holding two pair.
Pause here Paul ... a good cheater doesn’t cheat on everybody.
Common way to cheat is gaming elite college admissions system. Do you review applications founders sent to elite colleges? Do you test if taking Adderall or Modafinil without medical need? Cynic: VCs select in part for the right kind of cheating, not low-class cheating.
In your mind what’s the difference between a “hacker” and a “cheater”?
Now *that* is an interesting question. Hard to answer in 280 characters, but the short version is: the dimension in which they break the rules.
I don’t know. Seems like at least a few funds backed by the Saudis use this as a filter
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