At a market cap of almost $1 billion, Ethereum is priced for near-perfection in execution.

But it ain't executing perfectly AT ALL.

If the Ethereum devs aren't invested in DAO, if the Foundation isn't invested, you can bet your last BTC that these guys, as curators, convinced whales to invest.  Either way, it certainly appears as though VB is acting in his financial best interests to soft-fork, hard-fork, or do whatever he can do to protect his money or his whales' money.

It's truly disgusting.