Thanks for your email. I'm confident that most readers will understand that the line was tongue in cheek, however. The idea that a co-founder of Y Combinator could be persuaded to part with seed funding simply by dint of the solicitor's wearing a hooded sweatshirt is, of course, preposterous. At any rate, there is nothing to "correct," so to speak, as Mr. Graham did in fact say those words.

Not surprisingly I disagree with his assertion, but apparently he won't change the article or issue a correction.

Things like this explain why public figures have to be canny when dealing with the press: the desire to willfully misinterpret is strong, and, even when pointed out, often isn't corrected.