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This man is not an entrepreneur, and to try and say so is to insult and demean actual entrepreneurs everywhere.

His investors got lucky that he had the funds to repay them due to his other company. Had he gotten away with this, he likely would have done it again, and those investors might not have been so lucky.

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You can talk after you take a biotech company public.

no, we can talk about the fact that using fraud to fund legitimate activity isn't entrepreneurship, now.

You don’t get to define the word. He started a company which is now public and worth close to a billion dollars.

No, I can talk now, based on the fact that I have not defrauded investors.

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