The lack of awareness was the prof not realising corporate and upper class women are just as capable of being con artists with a dysfunctional grasp on reality as men are. (Other women are too, but they don't get the opportunities.)
It's an ironically sexist assumption.
Although at the same time men are less likely to face consequences - unless they defraud big-ticket investors without prior permission. Which was the true crime here, and the only one that matters at these levels.
This is a lie. Look at the OIG's blotter-- every name on it is going to be male.
Women comprise 60% of all embezzlement convictions.
Women also occupy 60% of all accounting jobs.
You'll see men facing consequences more, when you give men more opportunity to steal.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-are-more-women-convi...
They will even argue, forever, that the situation awareness did not failed or folded, because being margin called does not count when bright smart young person gets margin called.
Whatever you think of Musk there's a significant amount of "actually exists and works" that's on a different planet vs Theranos
Was referring more towards that before he went full mask off he was "that guy who does EV's" to anyone not paying close attention.
PayPal was already a working prototype, trademarked, and ready to go when Musk's failing-to-take-off online bank merged with them.
Musk was made CEO because he was the largest shareholder when they tried to figure out relative valuations at the merger.
He lasted four months. Spent most of it arguing with engineering about throwing away the full working prototype in favor of rewriting it from scratch in a language he understood, and arguing with the board about whether or not that was really what he should be focused on as CEO.
He lasted four months.
And in a world where executives resign, or "spend time with their family", etc., the Board of PayPal, having just attended Musk's wedding that weekend, publicly fired him on Monday morning as he was boarding a plane to go to his honeymoon. That is how bad it was.
Musk's actual contribution to PayPal is mostly "cashing the dividend checks".
Heck, Henry kissinger was on her board.
Holmes surely used her gender as a tool the same way all these striving psychopaths will use whatever is at their disposal, but if it wasn't her gender, it just would have been something else. And singling out her gender as uniquely responsible will do more harm than good as it will be used as a cudgel against all future women founders in a way someone like Musk or Sam Bankman-Fried won't for men. Or maybe this early xkcd[1] put it better.
[1] - https://xkcd.com/385/