"And that's when he saw a note from Peck via his website's contact form, offering to solve his problem." .. sounds like he could have used amazon turk. Still, this is all good, if probably sensationalized a bit.

The part where he like, saved a persons life is pretty cool. Shows the value of having very deep expertise in your startup is important.

Plus this is the future, which is great. My guess is that this write-up happened because of his investors trying to tell a story. I've been a part of startups, a huge part of the value add of the VC is their ability to plant these stories in MSM / Techcrunch / etc because they have cred with reporters.. Certain aspects will naturally get exaggerated to make the creation story sounds good.