[mlinsey]

Very different to lie about what your current product actually does (especially if it's a medical testing product!) vs to give predictions about your future products that turn out to be too overhyped. A good example of the latter is Elon, which also goes to show that you only have to have the pie-in-the-sky vision succeed a couple times for a lot of people to forgive a lot of other overpromises.

[zelphirkalt]

Right, though both are about lying blatantly, despite better knowledge, with the motivation of personal gain behind it.

[miltonlost]

Well, Musk does both now. He's lying about the present and his future.