That's my guess. This is a neat story but it's not realistic for someone to replicate without a very strong existing network, IMO.

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I would assume exactly the same.

If she hadn't had these credits, it would have been a very different story! Perhaps then she wouldnt have had any advertising budget...

It isn't clear to me that she used the credits for this project. She doesn't explicitly mention using them anywhere. The only step I can see that might use them is for hosting content but the videos are on YouTube and she mentions a platform called Teachable that appears to include hosting.

In her bio it says shes "ex @a16z" so maybe from there.