According to the article, Musk is the ideas guy and it's her job to implement them. So when Twitter fails, he'll say the ideas were great, it was an execution problem.
She probably figures at her next job interview she'll say it was a no win situation, but at least she accomplished (something).
Also, "research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get" -Wikipedia
Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.