• SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz
          31·
          1 year ago

          What did he do? The English Wikipedia entry has nothing on why he’s a douche (as I’m understanding from the comments here).

          • ⚡⚡⚡@feddit.de
            91·
            1 year ago

            In Germany, he is knows as some kind of “startup investor”…

            • He is sometimes invited in talkshows, but he is usually not qualified for the topics he is talking about. He got (and I hate this word in this context) destroyed by Harald Lesch (a very popular scientist in Germany) in a talkshow and on a different day by some economy expert and you saw that he did not know what he was talking about. When that woman presented a fact, he said that he had a different opinion about it…
            • He wanted to establish a “temporary dictatorship” in Germany
            • Pretty much all of the startups he invested in, are dead now
            • He advertises the company he invested in on social media and used fake numbers and crazy prognoses for the future to “scam” his viewership out of money
            • He created some kind of fonds (“10XDNA”) and advertised it as “safe” and “not speculative”. That thing went down almost -60% in ~ 1 year
            • There was an interview with German journalists (“STRG F”) that had a very weird ending. Thelen said something during an interview that was problematic for him and wanted the journalists to not show it. Later, he then gave a 2nd interview and said the opposite of what he said before…

            He is pretty much just a “Hey, I’m a successful, rich, innovative investor” brand and gets attention and money because of that.

            Whatever he is doing, just do the opposite…