Mattia Rizzi wrote:
In the future, they will teach his methods at the
Harvard Business School.
They will teach how to look like a scammer?
Indeed a good business model for scammers, a little bit tricky for who
want serious investors joins in.
Success sets the standard. Today, entrepreneurs going to venture
capitalists to get funding tend to look like Steve Jobs in his prime. On
the West Coast especially, they show up wearing blue jeans with a bad
attitude. See the movie "The Social Network." The snide attitude
portrayed in that movie are probably exaggerated but not by much. That
is how people act. That's because Steve Jobs and some other computer
1970s geeks set the standard for what an ambitious young person should act.
If someone had done that in the early 1960s, he would have gotten
nowhere. The bankers would have laughed at him and called him a hippy.
No one would have lent him enough money to buy a car, never mind enough
to start a corporation.
If Rossi succeeds and becomes the richest man in the world,
entrepreneurs in the future will ape him. Thirty years from now they
will act in ways that we would consider appropriate for a scammer today.
Random things like Jobs' manic personality often make a large impact and
change the course of history, and the styles and standards of an era, or
at least the styles appropriate to business. Bad ideas get a boost when
they happen to be associated with successful people, or when they seem
linked to good ideas.
- Jed
