It hinges on how plausible the scenario is that you can be a board member with a history of effortlessly mastering complex technical concepts, and all around you are whistleblowers asserting that the technology is a fraud, in which case your equity is worthless, and you decide that the best course of action is to abuse the legal system to intimidate them into silence. It's documented in the book that the family of one whistleblower ran up massive debts defending themselves, and a key scientist was hounded into committing suicide. It's not mentioned in the book that any of the lawyers ever wondered if maybe there might be something in all these reports.

Anyway, read the book and draw your own conclusions about the characters involved.