This is true, even from (oddly) investors. Met a solo female founder at a coffee shop this week (my state is open). She's a non-technical founder, building an app which is a marketplace that also will compete with Yelp or Google Maps, for a customer segment with no money also hit hard by COVID. All she's heard to date is positive things from everyone. Her app is buggy trash with terrible UX developed offshore at bargain basement rates. Since she's nontechnical it took a while to help her ascertain that it was done in React Native. We had a very long conversation about business principles (lessons I've learned the hard way mostly), all of them came as a very painful shock, like validating the business model before doing a full build out of the app, simple things. Look, I've seem some insane shit succeed and I wish her the best, but somebody filled her head with dreamy bullshit and she knew nothing of business including her market and nobody had yet to ask her a single hard question. All of the questions I asked seemed table stakes, just making conversation about her business, she couldn't answer. Yet an investor from Mexico had given her $10k, to match her personal $7k investment, to build an app.

At some point I had to stop the conversation because I realized that what I was doing was giving her the first honest conversation about her business she'd ever had with anyone and to be honest I wasn't really the person to be giving any advice. Mostly I just asked questions and shared some lessons from similar experiences.

tl;dr: somebody lied to this gal (perhaps through omission) and she's going to learn some hard lessons.

Apologies for any typos.