Every billionaire who considers this practice will run diligence in week one — on the framework, and on the founder. His office will find the bankruptcy, the insolvency proceedings, and the Supreme Court landmark within minutes. Hiding it would not slow that discovery down; it would only tell the diligence team that we are afraid of what they will find.
So the fall is presented in the same ink as the victories, on the Founder page, on first scroll. Not softened. Not asterisked.
I have made billions, lost billions, and rebuilt. Your consultants have read about cycles; I have survived them.
That sentence is not a marketing line. It is the actual answer to the actual question every serious prospective client is going to ask — which means the diligence question becomes the credential, not the obstacle.