She comes from a very, very privileged family with the kind of connections most of us can only dream about. Alas that still counts for a lot, even amongst the VCs (especially amongst?) in PAMPA.
This whole episode is the best justification for the thesis that that VCs are successful, not from adding value, but simply being presented with the best deals. Perhaps that bull at the Dallas Morning News could do as well.
I see her and Shkreli as fundamentally doing the same thing - just she's doing it not like an idiot, like him.
The house of cards will come tumbling down at some point, but it won't matter, there won't be consequences.
I know this because I've spent enough time in the world of the mega-rich, had enough passes made at me by apparently well meaning robber barons, to know that this is how this works.
See the Wall Street melt-down in 2009. These are supposedly finance professionals who "lent to the wrong sorts" but that's their only job, determining who and who not to lend to, right?
There's a lot of "boys will be boys" among the upper-middle class and wealthy, whether those "boys" are boys or girls of these families.