I guess it depends: One of the smartest "women in tech" I ever met told me that she loved being the only woman on our team. Why? because men (consistently) only cared about the results, not pecking order. Needless to say we loved her back: it is hard not to love people like her who are brilliant and meet us where we were.
>The reason my startup failed was a combination of poor decisions on my behalf...<p>I can't tell if that's just an error of language or not. I'm guessing from the rest of the article that she meant to say her decisions and just phrased it awkwardly.