Big Tech CEO found dead in her car after frantically calling her family telling them "We are in the matrix" after attending a series of high-tech related meetings and private conferences in California Erin Valenti was a tech entrepreneur and CEO of a company called Tinker Ventures. She tragically passed away in October 2019 under mysterious circumstances. Before her death, she made a series of frantic and confusing phone calls to her family, during which she reportedly said, "It's all a game, it's a thought experiment, we’re in the Matrix." Erin Valenti had been attending a series of tech-related meetings and conferences in California before she went missing. She was found dead in her rental car in San Jose, California, five days after she was reported missing. The official cause of death was determined to be "acute manic episode," but the circumstances surrounding her death and her strange final messages have led to a great deal of speculation and concern within the tech community and beyond. What did she mean?