[bobloblaw45]

If I had the money I'd secretly get employed at startups I was interested in to see if they were just a bunch of jokers or not.

I'd do this is because if I were that rich then I probably won the lottery and stupidly quit my job without thinking and would probably be very bored.

[shoo]

maybe you can start a business to provide this kind of undercover intelligence to VCs, e.g. you get paid a monthly retainer by some prospective investors to work undercover at a sequence of maybe-joking-startups and write dispatches reporting on what you see really going on.

[mtnGoat]

i know a person who did this. he wanted to acquire a company and asked to be hired on for 3 months before it was announced. This way he had time to figure out who was good, who was awesome and who was toxic.

[watwut]

Sounds a great way to make employees to perceive you as dishonest from the start.