Credit: Excerpted from SNAKE OIL, provided courtesy of Mariner Books/HarperCollins Publishers. Copyright © 2024 by Kelsey Mueller.     When the reporter from Entrepreneur rings the bell, I’m in the kitchen, chopping vegetables in a silk jumpsuit. Onions sweat in butter on the stove. Jeremy Krill wears dark jeans, expensive Italian loafers, and a baby blue fleece with SAN FRANCISCO embroidered across the chest. The cold summer weather takes even prestigious journalists by surprise. I settle him in at the kitchen island. Cooking for writers is one of my tricks. It’s hospitable and familiar, while giving me an excuse to turn away, pause, as if concentrating on some critical issue of heat or seasoning. “I hope you like mushrooms,” I say. “This is a recipe from my first cookbook.” He sets up his recorder, his leather notepad. We talk early days of Radical—starting the company in my college apartment, dropping out, growing fast, early employees working until dawn in the dusty shell of an old community center in the Mission, formulating products in the same kitchen where people microwaved lunch and made coffee. Making the leap into tech with our app, growing faster, faster, until we ’re nearly outgrowing the…