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.