Might have worked out in their case, sure, but it is still very much confirmation bias. People who decided not to join hot startups like Google and Facebook because they didn't agree with the list of investors or the board composition aren't exactly going to be posting about it here.

> In this case, they apparently said it in foresight

Eh, I would tend to believe that the slam against Henry Kissinger is mostly hindsight. The foresight part was the rest of the sentence:

>>> and total lack of people with domain/business expertise in the area