That doesn’t make it untrue or any less valuable.

I believe the context of his employment and role completely strips the value from the statements.

Fair point. I disagree. I’ve worked with plenty of sincere and reasonable marketers. None of them have shilled publicly under their own name when they weren’t sincere. Startups are on the above average side of hard working and thoughtful people, in my experience. If you want to shit on marketers, go ahead.