Again, this really isn't about Coinbase.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33895773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33961410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33809631

Every single time it's the same template, every single time the CEO is the villain, until we got one that was part of the in crowd.

I think people forget how tight knit the SV crowd can be. A lot of these people are former class mates/team mates/etc. It's a softer version of nepotism where any failings are taken much softer because these are people who just might rub your back the right way down the line due to proximity.

Speaking for myself, I am less familiar with Lattice than any of those brands except for the last one