[eddieh]

Starting companies, even successful, relatively technical companies, does not preclude a person from being a charlatan. The charlatan part comes when he publicly dismissed the concerns of experts and claimed there wouldn't be a problem, but of course there was a problem.

[ricardobeat]

> charlatan: a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill

[eddieh]

"publicly dismissed the concerns of experts" i.e falsely claiming to have special knowledge