This entrepreneur’s so-called “female Viagra” gets the headlines, but Cindy Eckert’s lucrative companies are just the tip of a much pinker iceberg. When Cindy Eckert calls from North Carolina, it almost sounds, at first, like she’s whispering. But the initial quiet, it readily becomes apparent, is not diffidence. More that she’s … listening. An undervalued skill in the muscled mall of VC world-beaters who were holding the keys to the kingdom she’s now part-owner of, after the two companies she built and sold for about $1.5 billion made it so. But also, listening because the prevailing narratives about her fall along two typical trend lines: business badass or the savior of female sexuality. And are we going for the former or the latter? | 