So Paul Graham had a girlfriend with an English degree and a background in marketing, and he brought her on to handle their marketing at YC. She was jokingly called the &quot;mom&quot; of the company, and she handled all the &quot;social stuff&quot; while they did all the &quot;technical stuff&quot; People assumed she was the secretary, and, according to her husband, she was okay with that. She&#x27;s stayed out of the limelight because she&#x27;s &quot;sensitive,&quot; &quot;modest,&quot; &quot;shrank from engaging,&quot; was &quot;mortified&quot; on a previous encounter with the press.<p>I mean, this is nothing against Jessica or her character -- there&#x27;s absolutely nothing wrong with being non-technical, an introvert, or preferring to stay out of the limelight, but it doesn&#x27;t exactly speak volumes that YC is promoting her like this, in response to YC starting out as a &quot;one-man show,&quot; and some of the other accusations against them.<p>&quot;No, really, my girlfriend was around to be the work mom and handle the social stuff!&quot; Just seems a little tone deaf.