That is a good point. It is more of a spectrum. I try not to use this term lightly but I have never met a person with such a disregard for their own equity. They boost their ego by constantly speaking about themselves in a grandiose way, yet have achieved nothing of substance. It seems they have this reality built through consistently lying that they wish to project on the world. I mean bold easily discoverable lies. These lies are being uncovered and this person is now being found out, causing them to act in malicious ways. Being a rational human being and engineer by training, it was juts inconceivable how to go though daily life like this. I try to live in objective reality, but this was just a fantasy world to this guy.<p>I have never really met &quot;crazy&quot; or understood in a direct sense what &quot;psychopathic&quot; meant but to associate certain word I would attribute the following as to what I mean as psychopathic with this individual: &quot;a pathological liar&quot;, &quot;self-destructive&quot;, &quot;narcissistic&quot;, &quot;irrational&quot;, &quot;vitrolic&quot;. I mean this person thought he was the next coming of Marc Andreessen.<p>In an objective sense it is unfortunate that there are actually people who live like this. But I wrote this article to warn start-up founders that are just starting out looking for a co-founder or a &quot;mentor&quot;. I was just a PhD engineering student when I started, I did not know how to adequately gauge business prowess or to read through a person like this.<p>I can say I&#x27;ve learned what NOT to do and what NOT to be like. Now I am a less trusting and more guarded person.