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Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr just welcomed their second child together. Here are 14 other power couples who rule the tech world.
Oct 16, 2019, 1:21 PM
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There are several other leaders in the tech industry who are
dating, and married to, prominent venture capitalists, models,
athletes, and powerful people.
These are 15 of the most powerful couples in the tech world.
While some tech leaders, like Mark
Zuckerberg, have been
with their partners since college, notable figures in the
tech sector have gravitated toward partners with just as much -
or more! - power and pull in their industries.
The CEO of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel,
just welcomed his second child with his wife, Australian
supermodel Miranda Kerr. Kerr made the announcement on Instagram,
where she revealed to her over 12 million followers that their
newest son is named Myles.
But there have also been some high-profile splits in the past
year that have hit some prominent tech leaders. Amazon CEO
Jeff
Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced in early January
that
they were getting a divorce. Elon
Musk and the Canadian singer Grimes
dated for a while, though
it's unclear whether the on again, off again couple is still
together.
Here are 15 of the top power couples in the tech
industry:
Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr
Who they are: Spiegel is the cofounder and CEO
of Snap Inc., Snapchat's
parent company. Kerr is one of the highest-earning models in the
world, and founder of wellness company KORA Organics.
Who they are: Brin is the cofounder of Google, and
currently serves as the president of its parent company, Alphabet.
Shanahan is the founder of legal tech company ClearAccessIP and the Bia-Echo Foundation.
Their backstory: The couple has been linked
together since 2015, when
they were seen together at the star-studded wedding for a
dating app CEO in Jamaica. The couple reportedly
have a baby girl together who was born late last year,
although they've kept information about their child under wraps.
It was
revealed in October that the couple has been married since
2018, but there are no other public details about the wedding.
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Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner
Who they are: Kushner is the founder of VC firm
Thrive
Capital and cofounder of health insurance startup Oscar
Health. Kloss is a prominent model who runs coding camps for
young girls called Kode
with Klossy.
Who they are: Rubio is the cofounder and
president of luggage startup Away, and
Butterfield in the cofounder and CEO of work messaging platform
Slack.
Their backstory: The relationship between Rubio
and Butterfield has flew under the radar, but it came under the
spotlight in May when Butterfield
jokingly proposed to Rubio on Twitter. Butterfield's Twitter
proposal followed news that Away
had landed a $1.4 billion valuation, and the Slack CEO joked
he wasn't "just a goldigger."
Butterfield and Rubio both acknowledged the proposal was a joke,
after a few hours. However, it seems Butterfield had
apparently been waiting for Memorial Day weekend to propose -
for real, this time.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
Who they are: Zuckerberg is the CEO and
cofounder of Facebook.
Together, the couple launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a
philanthropy focused on science and education.
Their backstory: The two are college
sweethearts, and met in 2003 while they were students at Harvard
University. The couple
were married in a surprise ceremony in May 2012, the day
after Facebook went public. The couple
has two daughters, who were born in 2015 and 2017.
Who they are: Ohanian cofounded Reddit,
then later cofounded the VC firm Initialized Capital. Williams is
one of the best tennis players in the world, and ranks third on
the all-time list of most winning players with 39 major
tournament titles.
Their backstory: The couple
met in May 2015 in Rome, and started dating that same year.
They got engaged at the end of 2016 at the same place in Rome
where they had first met. Williams gave birth to the couple's
daughter in 2017, and they got married later that year.
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Their backstory: Bill Gates
first asked out Melinda Gates at a Microsoft company picnic
after she was hired as a product manager in 1987. They dated for
seven years before they got married. The couple's philanthropic
organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has
invested billions of dollars in efforts to enhance healthcare
globally and reduce poverty. The Gates's have two daughters and a
son together.
Who they are: Mayer is the former CEO of
Yahoo,
and the cofounder of tech incubator Lumi
Labs. Before that, she was Google's 20th employee. Bogue is
a
cofounder and managing partner at the investment firm Data
Collective VC.
Their backstory: The couple met through a mutual
friend in 2007, and got married two years later. Mayer announced
her first pregnancy in 2012
on the same day she was publicly named Yahoo's CEO. She gave
birth to identical twin girls in 2015.
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Who they are: David Morin helped to create
Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect, and cofounded Path,
a
now-defunct photo-based platform. Brit Morin is the founder
of Brit + Co., a popular
lifestyle media company for millennial women.
Their backstory: The pair first met when they
both were working at Apple years ago. They got engaged in 2011
after
an elaborate proposal set in the Maldives, and got married
the following year.
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Kevin Hartz and Julia Hartz
Who they are: Kevin Hartz and Julia Hartz
cofounded the ticketing startup Eventbrite
in 2006. He is currently a chairman at the company, while she
serves as CEO.
Who they are: Diller
founded the Internet company IAC in 1995,
and now serves as a chairman for that company and for Expedia.
Furstenberg is a notable designer with an eponymous fashion
company who first rose to fame after
marrying into a royal German family.
Their backstory: The couple got married in 2001,
but have had an
on-and-off relationship and friendship that's spanned more
than 40 years. They first met years earlier in the 70s at a party
Diller was hosting.
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Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston
Who they are: Graham and Livingston helped found
Y
Combinator, a wildly successful startup accelerator program
that's
produced companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Stripe.
Who they are: Greene and Rosenblum both helped
found the cloud computing software company VMware in
1998. They also together cofounded the cloud startup Bebop, which
Google acquired in 2015. Greene was
put in charge of Google's cloud computing unit, and now sits
on Alphabet's board of directors.
Their backstory: The
couple met while attending the University of California,
Berkeley, when Rosenblum gave Greene a ride on his motorcycle.
They have two children together.
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Emily Weiss and Will Gaybrick
Who they are: Weiss is the cofounder and CEO of
online makeup company Glossier.
Gaybrick is the chief financial officer at payment platform
Stripe.
Both startups are worth more than $1 billion.
Their backstory: There's not a lot about their
relationship that's been made public. The first picture of the
couple on Weiss' Instagram is from New Years Day of 2019.
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