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AITJ for publicly deconstructing my friend's startup pitch during a Q&A session, pointing out that her business model was essentially a Ponzi scheme?

¿Soy el malo por destrozar la presentación de mi amiga delante de inversores, señalando que su modelo de negocio era básicamente un esquema piramidal?

OP attended a friend's startup pitch event as moral support, but after analyzing the numbers realized the business model was structurally unsustainable—and said so during the public Q&A, torpedoing the fundraising round.

Contexto: tengo 31 años, soy analista financiero en una consultora de Madrid. Mi amiga Rocío (29) y yo nos conocemos desde la carrera. Siempre fue la más carismática del grupo, la que convencía a cualquiera de cualquier cosa.

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