As a male co-founder I once asked an advisor for connections with "cynical product people" in order to illicit negative feedback of my company's product. I felt

As a male co-founder I once asked an advisor for connections with "cynical product people" in order to illicit negative feedback of my company's product. I felt like the positive feedback loop in SF was that bad (for everyone). I think a lot of different things are in play here. Part of it I think was just a culture that wanted a female Steve Jobs character, that opportunity was there and she took it. She also got a lot of credit coming out of Stanford, hell she even hosted one of those seminar courses at Stanford.