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She didn't get away with it. She eventually got caught.

But secretly sleeping with and living with one of her male investors likely was a factor in this debacle dragging on as long as it did and that's not typically an option for most slick conMEN even if they were willing to pursue it because most wealthy, powerful people are heterosexual males.

>>Doreen+(OP)
Or the real secret which is nobody does due diligence beyond “other people are doing it and must have checked it out”.

>>bombca+81
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.)

>>Doreen+k1
> 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.