This rub anyone else the wrong way?

I applied to the startup program with my legitimate startup which actually makes me money (but apparently isn’t legitimate to Anthropic, which is itself, a startup) and they denied me, then later that same day they sent me a promotional email to buy API credits to the COMPANY EMAIL THAT I GAVE THEM WHEN SIGNING UP FOR THE STARTUP PROGRAM.

I wonder if this was planned as a marketing stunt from the beginning or if it just developed into that naturally from over promising.