[hagy]

In your hypothetical narrative I would say that Triplebyte's investors would be the Machiavellian operators setting up a situation where they stand to gain from the company's risk and be shielded should it go badly. After all, investors in high growth companies are looking for one or two massive wins out of a portfolio of numerous companies and can justify such risks. The founder and CEO of such a company doesn't have the same risk profile since all of their eggs are in one basket.

To be clear, I don't have any reason to believe that this is what happened and I think such narratives are more appropriate for works of fiction. Reality is far messier.