A very good friend of mine started out as a boat building apprentice over 50 years ago and now runs (with his son) a very successful composite materials company.
They had to innovate, invest, take risks, explore new concepts and materials and now have three locations to work from employing the thick end of 100 people.
The big difference is that while they were doing this, they were actually producing things for customers to have in their hands and use.
I know, and I get it. I was just struck by the contrast of crab's story to Dr. Hill's. IMHO they are both inspiring tales of entrepreneurship and again IMHO they should both be celebrated. Agile has summarised the situation and it seems to me nobody in the Hill enterprise is being duped. And we can still point out what we think is wrong (lower flame) without assuming bad intentions.