In hindsight, the influencer believes she and Sophia only compared themselves to Elizabeth because they didn’t know a lot of women founders in Silicon Valley, adding, “It’s horrible that that’s the only female entrepreneur that’s literally known in the U.S.”
And in the end, Phoebe’s project didn’t come to fruition.
“We had this whole grand idea, we go heads down for three weeks,” she recalled. “We kind of go off the face of the Earth and everyone thought we were in love with each other, that we had basically docked ourselves from social life.”
However, Phoebe—who debuted her romance with Paul McCartney‘s grandson Arthur Donald last year—realized that the pair’s business plan flopped because they didn’t have answers prepared for some “pretty key questions,” such as what problem the product solved, how it would make money and why they would be the right people to make it.
“We get flat-out rejected from that class, which was honestly a really good reality check for us,” she added. “Luckily, Stanford has the all-access entrepreneurship class that anyone could get into.”
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