2. People with high IQs tend to have aversion for the kind of sweat and labor and scheming your gf's friend went through. He sounds like a smart and shrewd man, but not much more.

3. What you consider as "successes" may not be important to others.

4. People who strong passions for money making (startups, banking, etc) often have inadequacies to compensate for. For example, a man who gets laid all the time probably doesn't give a fuck about sweating for a (or his own) startup.

5. Please stop licking your own wounds (from not having superior intelligence) by writing such an inane post.