I don’t know if Mary is the person who asked the question, but the person who asked the question is absolutely the person who introduced this idea. The energy in the room changed at that point. And it does seem like a setup - like I said before, I never imagined I’d be defending B.F., but I don’t know what she was…

I am 100% sure Bethenny didn’t tell the woman who asked her the question that she should hire a white man to represent her company. Bethenny was bound to fail at a question like this - she does not have the expertise (personal or otherwise) to competently advice black female founders on how to navigate the fundraising…

Not that it will matter, but I was there and she didn’t say it. I’m also a female minority founder. And never in a million years did I think I’d be defending Bethenny Frankel on Jezebel. An audience member (Mary?) asked what Bethenny thought about the advice that an advisor gave her that she get a white guy to rep her…