&quot;After that she told the PR firm to stop.&quot;<p>Oh wow I disagree with this totally. One reporter gives a bad slant to a story and that is enough to make you give up on setting up and getting other PR? What am I missing here? Anyone who has ever appeared in a story in the news (I have multiple times) knows they always get things wrong and always angle to story to what they think is something interesting that will allow them to sell advertising. That is the business they are in. With all due respect to Jessica (who I don&#x27;t know) this sounds to me very thin skinned and not exactly an example of overcoming adversity in the entrepreneurship world. Of course it&#x27;s her right to not do interviews if she doesn&#x27;t feel like doing them but the way PG presents the story it&#x27;s as if this one incident was enough to sour her taste (and there were no other factors at play).<p>Edit: As would be expected say something (not delicately or gently enough) about anyone closely associated with YC and get downvoted.  Maybe that&#x27;s just because people will pay attention to the comment more and tend to react more emotionally than rationally.<p>Edit#2: As far as those who say &quot;YC is successful Jessica doesn&#x27;t need to be in the limelight it&#x27;s important to realize that people read these essays who are not in that position. Or even close. So perhaps PG could have pointed that out in a more direct way so that those learning from his writings could understand the nuance of the decision.