Why has the tech entrepreneur doubled down on his claim that a British diver is a paedophile? Because he can’t handle criticism
The qualities of a successful businessman, my late father used to say, correlate with those of a psychopath. This makes him sound like a raving leftie, except for the fact that he was a forensic psychologist and briefly in charge of the psychopathy unit at Wormwood Scrubs; so far as I could tell, he meant it literally.
The qualities of the tech entrepreneur are nothing like that, which is a statement I am definitely not clarifying, because the last thing you want to do is defame a rich person. But having a huge quantity of any personal trait – whether it is single-mindedness, tenacity or self-belief – can always cut both ways.
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