Perhaps there is something to learn from grove.io (I'm not saying it's a bad idea, only that you should learn more about what didn't work for them -- which you presumably already have)
Makes less sense to blame the people, rather than lay blame to what they did (or did not) do.
It sounds to me like you are judging the founder. Not that I would disagree with you.
Don't get me wrong, I think Leah is awesome. She just builds up companies for soft landings/aquihires and pockets some money along the way. There is no reason a viable company couldn't exist on the grove model.
Some people go live on a farm and herd sheep, I herd servers.
Another thing I took away from that is that closed source software dies with their author. Open source lives forever.