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I think her mother is more famous actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress)

More successful by my standards (and yours, I guess), but not by the standards silicon valley uses. I assume lots of objectively stupid businesses are run by people who are capable of doing something profitable, but profitable isn't the goal.

In anywhere else where people don't throw billions into moonshots it is the goal. Nobody forces you to work on your small business all the time, you create it, you hire someone to do it, you collect money. If your only goal is to lose as much money as possible, as that means "pre-profit", then good luck.

And plenty of Silicon Valley startups have rich/well-connected parents involved as well.