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Honestly surprised I haven't heard that reasoning before now that you mention it:

Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer all married subordinates, and Elon Musk had children with an employee



Erm, which subordinate was the one Bezos married?


Mackenzie worked for Jeff at D.E. Shaw


Mackenzie did NOT worked for him. She worked in same floor for different department. She fell in love with his laugh, because she would heard him laugh in the meetings in the meeting room taking place near her office. That's when she noticed him. Do watch her interviews, they are free on youtube. She's the one that pursued him, if you want to talk about a strong woman and showing initiative. The idiot downgraded, showing having brain to get money != than having brain to get women.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Scott#Personal_life claimed "She met him while working as his administrative assistant at D.E. Shaw in 1992"

Regardless if she was his assistant or another executive's assistant, there's clearly a power dynamic between a senior vice-president and an assistant


Form the source of the wikipedia you quoted above:

"MacKenzie Tuttle, an aspiring novelist, met her husband at D. E. Shaw, a New York hedge fund where Mr. Bezos, a computer scientist by training, had become a senior vice president.

She told Vogue that she took the position of administrative assistant to pay the bills while she worked on her novels, but she soon found herself enamored with the laugh of the man who worked in the next office over. As Ms. Bezos put it in a 2013 interview with Charlie Rose: “It was love at first listen.”

SHE pursued him, and the wikipedia is wrong in saying that she worked for him. Nowhere in the article says that. As I was saying before, she was working in the same floor, but not for him. There was never a power dynamic there, just a woman who fell in love with a man.


Elon donated sperm to an executive at one of his companies. It's a bit different than "Elon Musk had children with an employee"




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