Your notion that good programmers = good product is absurd. As is your rush to blame somebody for failing to find traction.
If a startup fails to find traction, there's no clear reason to blame anybody. Most startups do that.
If a startup fails to find traction, there's no clear reason to blame anybody. Most startups do that.
I don't for a moment believe the startup actually failed due solely to the designer. And yet, it's more likely that the designer just wasn't google-quality than libelling google by claiming it was sexism that caused them to hire a few engineers but not the designer from a failed startup.