Part of me feels compelled to invoke the folktale of the frog and the
scorpion. You know the story: The scorpion seeks a ride across the
river, and the frog refuses, fearing the scorpion's poisonous sting.
The scorpion pleads, "You can trust me." And the frog acquiesces. But
as the frog bears the scorpion across the water, he feels the sting.
And as the poison spreads through the frog's body, paralyzing his limbs,
he asks the scorpion why he stung him as now, they both will drown.
"It's in my nature," says the scorpion.
Honestly, I'm not sure whose nature I really want to allude to as poisonous here, in a day full of accusations and denials in the tech investment world. And while the tale of the scorpion and the frog is perhaps a cliched cautionary one, the story seems appropriate nonetheless.
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Author: Audrey Watters
