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Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison by s73v3r_ on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:44PM (#16554851)
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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Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison by swedish_mafia on Friday March 09, 2018 @07:23PM (#16556259)
You can talk after you take a biotech company public.
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Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison by s73v3r_ on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:07PM (#16559918)
No, I can talk now, based on the fact that I have not defrauded investors.
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Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison by rpearl on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:25PM (#16556749)
no, we can talk about the fact that using fraud to fund legitimate activity isn't entrepreneurship, now.
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Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison by swedish_mafia on Saturday March 10, 2018 @06:49PM (#16560759)
You don’t get to define the word. He started a company which is now public and worth close to a billion dollars.
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