I think that&#x27;s the calculus that she figured on when she made the decision not to be a public figure.<p>I suspect that the recent articles playing up her role are because she &amp; YC realized that there <i>is</i> something they&#x27;re missing out on: millions of potential female founders are not starting companies because they don&#x27;t have strong role models.  This hurts YC in a financial sense, but even beyond that: if your mission is to increase the amount of startups and innovation in the world, then having half the world&#x27;s population disqualify themselves because they don&#x27;t have many good examples of it being done before is losing out.