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That would piss off many investors and you don't want to do that. The most recent example is Martin Shkreli [1].

What they could get away with is spend 20-50% of the funds on hiring a large well-looking diverse team, spend the rest on consultancy fees from world-class experts in XXX and YYY and eventually quietly shut down. In the current investment climate this won't be taken as a questionable spending, at least not enough to bother investigating possible affiliation between you and the experts (e.g. Juicero and Ottolock).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli



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