Elizabeth Holmes and I will go to prison for the same thing. I just don’t know what it is yet.

Nathan Fielder’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything, has a scene where he plays her Who’s on First. She can’t follow it. He keeps going. She keeps smiling. I couldn’t follow Who’s on First the first time I heard it. I watched the movie with another autistic woman who had never heard the routine, and she couldn’t follow it either. Until that scene I thought everyone needed it explained. Elizabeth Holmes is autistic. The Department of Justice says she went to prison because she “intentionally misled investors”. I think she went to prison because nobody knows what an autistic woman looks like, and nobody told her how much lying is allowed. Successful founders lie. Successful boards govern. Misleading investors is a startup founder’s job, which is why professional investors assume every founder’s numbers are misleading and triple-check the spreadsheet. A study of 98 founders showed they got sued about seven times a year each, mostly for fraud, and the authors say…

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