Likely true, but in most cases that doesn't result in a company that is 100 percent pure and unadulterated hot air getting a valuation of $10 Billion (with a B, not an M) and then going to zero overnight when the dirty truth finally comes out.

I have always believed her gender was a factor in this nonsense. (I am a woman and my experiences as a woman having trouble getting taken seriously is part of why I always thought this was crazy stuff and life made sense again once it turned out to be fraud.)

> I am a woman and my experiences as a woman having trouble getting taken seriously

That resonates quite strongly with my experience, especially at competitive workplaces (big tech companies in SV). I'm a white straight man, if that matters, though.