Former OceanGate employee Matthew McCoy testified Friday that at a lunch meeting in September 2017, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him that if he ran into any issues with the US Coast Guard ahead of the Titan expedition, Rush “would buy a congressman” and make the problems “go away.”
He built a homebuilt aircraft and that wasn’t the thing that killed him, so he wasn’t dumb by any stretch, but “smart enough to be dangerous” seems like a phrase coined just for him.
So basically he’s Peter Thiel minus the Titanic stuff.
Peter Thiel has a reputation for being evil but smart. This guy didn’t seem so smart, just cocky and ambitious.
He built a homebuilt aircraft and that wasn’t the thing that killed him, so he wasn’t dumb by any stretch, but “smart enough to be dangerous” seems like a phrase coined just for him.