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Re: Mark Zuckerberg married

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Post by larrys »

stephengillie wrote: post #28
gilrain wrote: post #16

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I would marry someone I trusted to death and beyond, compared to which trusting with mere property is trivial. Yes, it's a risk... there's a saying about risk, though, isn't there? Let's give Mark the benefit of the doubt and assume he's marrying for love.

The couple may be madly in love today, but human emotions are fickle and people change and grow over time. Sadly, there may come a day when both are more concerned with the future of the FB empire than with each other.

"people change and grow over time"

How true and as anyone who has been through divorce will confirm.

In addition to the potential problem with what would be marrying simply a normal or a successful person I can't even begin to imagine the challenges of a marriage to someone with that much money and job responsibility. And no question marriage will detract from his work life (especially if he decides to have children). That even happened to Bill Gates as anyone who remembers the Gates before marriage will attest to.

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Post by joering2 »

"According to David Kirkpatrick's book, The Facebook Effect, Zuckerberg met Chan while in line to use the bathroom at a Harvard University party. The pair dated on and off again in college, but maintained a relationship as the Facebook CEO rose in prominence in the technology world."

What really interests me, at this point, how do you know that she truly loves him?? Its hard to know that when regular people like me and you date, and here we are having a pair that dated "on and off" for a while and now one side got filthy rich.

Perhaps I am spoiled and I never loved anyone, but in his shoes, I would have never really believed she is in it for love. Sorry.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg married

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Post by joering2 »

rgrieselhuber wrote: post #26
dkokelley wrote: post #22

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Yeah, pressure from people who have authority to fire you. I don't think that's the case for Zuckerberg. "Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock." ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47491836/ns/business/ ) Does anyone know what sort of recourse the minority shareholders and the other 44% voting…

Pretty sure he's not planning on running it into the ground.

that depends. to the ground financially? if ads click-through wont progress and they wont find mobile revenue model, it will be extremely hard for Zuck to keep users happy AND keep this operation running (financially, that is).

Re: Mark Zuckerberg married

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Post by Mz »

dragonsky wrote: post #23
mojaam wrote: post #9

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There are people not on Facebook? I keed, I keed :)

Call me a Luddite, but I don't have a Facebook account. But then again, I don't have friends, so I don't see the need.

I had one. I did not use it. I deleted it. I debate getting a new one.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg married

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Post by ChuckMcM »

stephengillie wrote: post #5

As erdemozkan stated in a duplicate discussion: Mark married Priscilla one day after the IPO. That means they were waiting for IPO to get married. Sorry for asking a question that may seem obvious to others, but why were they waiting for the IPO? Is it for financial or legal reasons, such as a Community Property State? Did Zuckerberg sign a prenuptial agreement? An internet search implies he didn't. This reminds me o…

He didn't "wait until the IPO" according to people who knew, he waited for her to graduate. The timing of the IPO is very hard to predict given it requires sign off by the SEC, graduation on the other hand, pretty easy.

I don't doubt for a minute that they have some sort of agreement in place in the event of a separation. While most might think such an agreement would benefit Mark, the real beneficiary are Facebook shareholders if splitting up required selling shares to split proceeds. That could really move the stock unreasonably.

However, as I know a number of people who are (some of whom merely were :-) very very wealthy, they share a common difficulty in dating post wealth. Not that every potential spouse is a "gold digger" but the people who are inclined to be one come out of the wood work apparently. It can be a very sad thing, being lonely and knowing how that makes you a target. So having someone you know (and knew) when you were just a crazy dreamer, and they still wanted to be with you, is a very priceless thing.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg married

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Post by bengl3rt »

stephengillie wrote: post #5

As erdemozkan stated in a duplicate discussion: Mark married Priscilla one day after the IPO. That means they were waiting for IPO to get married. Sorry for asking a question that may seem obvious to others, but why were they waiting for the IPO? Is it for financial or legal reasons, such as a Community Property State? Did Zuckerberg sign a prenuptial agreement? An internet search implies he didn't. This reminds me o…

Nice to see a fellow Leykis listen here on HN. Props for the reference.

Almost guaranteed the show will be about this on Monday.

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