Direct quote from the article: In a particularly damning missive, one person claiming to be a former employee wrote in to describe the systematic refusal to pay small, women-owned businesses as they had fewer resources to fight back.

So anonymous hear-say is all there is?

And is the company even small? "Some of our bigger customers purchase up to $15,000/week with us" sounds like they make > $100k revenue/week regularly, baking thousands and thousands of cakes every week. I don't know SF standards of small, but that sounds like a solid operation to me - one that definitely has the resources to go after a corporate client that doesn't pay.

I still find it weird to focus on gender/sex and ethnicity, and I have my doubts that Munchery invested a lot of time & money into finding out who is behind the companies they don't pay and what the owners' gender is.

Yes, it's clear that you don't believe the woman whose business was impacted, and choose to side with the VC-funded company that stiffed their vendors. You could just say that, rather than pretend to have a bunch of concerns about discourse, and save us all a lot of time.

I don't know where I hurt your feelings, but I'm sorry.

If you heard someone had illegally chopped down a tree, would you be extra upset if the tree were an endangered species?

Are women endangered of going extinct? I'm sorry, I hadn't realized that before.

Only 5% of American businesses are owned by women of color.

So you're suggesting amending the law that they get preferential treatment in liquidation cases, and their companies are always paid first regardless of company size, resources etc?

Because that's what I understand the article to complain about. It's not a "three women baking pies and trying to make ends meet"-company, it's a "we produce thousands of cakes a week"-company. They are not going to go out of business, but they will probably have learned to be more active about unpaid invoices.

Not everything is about suppressing women or minorities, and crying wolf all the time will lead to people ignoring the cases when it actually is.

more pity points. despite them saying in a differnt part of the article that some of their clients give them 15k a week

The COGS and labor on a 15k wholesale order is likely 10k, so not getting paid is a big deal. Also, it's relevant because employees of munchery reported that the company would systematically choose to not pay small women and minority owned companies because they had fewer resources and were thus less likely to fight back.