[pinkfairy10]

It’s easier to commit fraud than start a unicorn tech company. How can you not understand that?

[JeremyNT]

He did the "hard" part of this, which is getting investors. It didn't matter whether the business failed at that point.

If he'd just failed without the deception he could have collected his golden parachute, then gone on to keep failing at new startups for an indefinite amount of time.

[ghaff]

But you don't go to jail for failing to start a unicorn tech company so long as you don't do anything illegal.