This raises a final possible parallel with Holmes: some have argued that she herself was, to some degree, a victim of the Silicon Valley funding machine. Some venture capitalists, logically, saw the marketing potential of her story and her image, but avoided examining her skills and ideas. As illustrated in the Hulu series "The Dropout", this made Holmes little more than a tool to generate alpha, to be put to the side if something went wrong. Do Kwon will certainly be hurt more than any of the department stores that gave him money.