We love the story of the brilliant founder building for the future from an obscure garage. However, new data from a 2026 Venture Fraud study reveals that the very things we celebrate in Silicon Valley - exponential scale at breakneck speeds - can create a perfect breeding ground for misconduct. While the collapse of Theranos or FTX is often dismissed as a “black swan” anomaly, the data suggests Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried weren't outliers - they were leading indic