But her family does not believe she killed herself. That just wasn't Valenti, whose nickname was "Armageddon Erin" because of her boisterous energy and a proclivity for being places when natural disasters hit.
And there are some things that remain murky, such as her confused ramblings on the day her husband, Harrison Weinstein, reported her missing. Weinstein also asked police to make a welfare check. According to the family, the police called Valenti on the phone, and she told an officer she was only a joking around.
"It's not that she came to like Salt Lake City," said Ryan Kruizenga, a former coworker who stayed a close friend. "She made it into something she liked better." She had already tried running a startup before moving to Utah, creating a work-for-hire service called Skycrane. It let people offload their administrative tasks to freelancers helped by automation.
Scott Rafferty, a Utah entrepreneur, said his friend talked all the time about quitting what had become a multimillion-dollar business, but never meant it. She told him she felt responsible for the welfare of more than 130 engineers and their families on the other side of the world. With a difference of 12 hours between them, Valenti and her cofounder rarely talked on the phone.
Others say the entrepreneur had plans to finance a startup accelerator inside her company. Her cofounder, Khan, said the two had discussed the idea only casually. On the morning of Thursday, October 3, Valenti flew into the Bay Area for a second tech gathering that week, a two-dayThe weekend passed in a series of small reunions — dinners and brunches with former colleagues. According to her father, Joseph Valenti, she also did some shopping. Valenti's credit-card statements show she spent several hundred dollars on vinyl records, though she didn't own a turntable.
An officer with the San Jose police called Valenti to make a welfare check at her husband's request. She said she was fine. The police later told the family that because Valenti was an adult, her case would be treated as a "voluntary missing person." She could have just taken off for a couple of days without telling anybody, the police said.
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