Often, the founders are permitted to embezzle the last 5-10% of the capital by walk away investors. Sometimes, the founders own and profit from vendors to their venture, which dies. Sometimes, a tiny, viable business is started within the venture, whose main business plan fails. The little business survives and feeds the founder and a few cronies. Sometimes, the founder goes back to her lucrative university professorship which she was "on leave" from.

The founders never get hurt.