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As an author, Komisar has the valley insider's cred to actually have his message heard by the exact kind of wildly driven, but misguided, slickie slicks who need it. His antidote to the pervasive cash-out mentality is not nearly as captivating as his bitingly accurate portrayal of the problem. He nails the entrepreneur as pitchman on hyper-overdrive, right down to the mechanistic inability to deviate from his script. Clearly, Komisar has sat through one too many painful pitches. I had begun to find aspects of the start-up game increasingly disturbing.