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Fraudsters can come in very pretty packaging.
Short of a sea change in the underlying culture there, "Fake It 'Till You Make It" in Sillycon Valley will never end.
But making up phony user accounts is a whole different ball of wax. I hope Ms. Charlie likes wearing orange jumpsuits because that's going to be her future wardrobe for a while.
She looks dumbstruck in that photo, like the reality just set in on her.
I worked for one horribly crooked CEO in a Silicon Valley startup company, but we never went as far as she did. Of course, we were make a free space optical communication system and it was a lot harder to fake hardware than bogus software accounts.
And we should make sure her jail cell is nice and cozy.
Students and colleges.
What about the whole student loan sharking paradigm??
I’m guessing she’s not a registered Republican.
Is it just me or do leftist women have a certain look that you don’t usually (ever?) find in conservative ladies?
“Fake it til you make it” is all about projecting the success you want to achieve, not literal fraud.
So easy. Be sort of cute. Be under 30. Know all the right buzz words. Give “compelling” speeches, and you can dupe people for millions. And let’s face it. Investment bankers see someone like her and want to use the sex appeal of a young techie girl who doesn’t look like a mashed up toad.
“...JPMorgan bought the startup for $175 million...”
So Dimon didn’t do due dilligence and isn’t such a genius after all?
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Fraudsters can come in very pretty packaging.
Short of a sea change in the underlying culture there, "Fake It 'Till You Make It" in Sillycon Valley will never end.
“Later, she asked the employee to fabricate thousands of accounts, assuring her staff that such a move was legal and that no one would end up in “orange jumpsuits,”
I think orange jumpsuits are in fashion this season.
Mark Cuban did exactly this, but never fixed the "bugs." He sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo (when their stock price was near $400) for billions, and I spoke with the Yahoo Dallas SVP tasked with integrating it back in 2000. He said it was useless and unworkable and Yahoo shuttered it 6 months later - an event that started the stock's downfall. Cuban is a total fraud. All his subsequent startups have failed, including one HDTV channel in which he ridiculously brought on another fraudster, Dan Rather as head of "news."
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