Struggle to learn business patterns. Begin to get good at the business patterns. Attract silver-tounged Predators. Predators lull Brainiacs with false sense of good will and promise of quick riches. Brainiacs invite Predators in.
Predators run rampant, destroying everything they touch.
Brainiacs complain . Predators eject Brainiacs, and cash in by selling the assets. Brainiacs lick wounds and wonder what happened. He observes that he's known Brainiacs who attempted with mixed success to operate as Predators, but has never known a Predator who even tried to be a Brainiac. One observes, however, that many Predators believe they are the Brainiacs, that their heroic efforts to carry these trifling enterprises into the bigtime with their baggage of trivial tricks are too often thwarted by geeks who have no appreciation for important opportunity.