She is a strange cookie. For one thing her voice is weird, unusually deep and coarse for a female. Crazy eyes too. She's not a particularly smooth con artist. Her body language and mannerisms project nervousness and deceit.
Nevertheless, what immense chutzpah! A 19 year old dropout from Stanford thinks she can build a company around what? Did she create any tech? License somebody else’s tech? She got one of her Stanford engineering profs as an advisor or early board member and then continued to leverage that upward.
I remember in one of my freshman (age 18) introductory mechanical engineering courses we had to “design” a Mars lander. Did any of us drop out to create the next Space-X? The thought was so preposterous that it never even occurred to any of us.