This is unmitigated bullshit. The firm was launched into its ludicrous fundraising path via her relationship with Tim Draper, the consummate Silicon Valley insider, and even the article points out that the fundraising was pretty much all SV. Just not the right Silicon Valley, you know.
This should be in a textbook as the archetypal "No True Scotsman" argument.
This should be in a textbook as the archetypal "No True Scotsman" argument.