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delusions of grandeur strongly remind me of Paul LeRoux https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind/

... also Kim Dotcom who I met personally before going on a run to Asia. He too had cardboard cutouts of himself as a cartoon character all over his Munich office of DataProtect. Funny that Kim Schmitz managed to settle in NZ and not Russia. He is an outlier, probably lacked the RU connection back then.



The book _Kingpin_ about LeRoux is a great read! Fun and geeky.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin

Especially liked the part where he is asked "so why do you keep your piles of cash in Pelican cases"? "Because they float."




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