it's funny that the reward of starting a hedge fund is 'marry that yoga instructor'.
1. seems like a pretty indirect strategy for getting what you want.
2. quite an insult to the yoga teachers.
It's an insult that respected, powerful men want to risk half their net worth to marry someone? Take a look at the NYT wedding announcements some time, and note the facial expressions of everyone who is insulted in such a manner.
The insult may be in that it implies the person to be married is being swayed purely by money basically.
Just having money is probably not enough, NOT having money is definitely no-no.
as far as your "indirect strategy" comment goes, this is something that i have been thinking about. on the one hand it's extremely inefficient to try to build great wealth in order to get a date; on the other hand, sublimated sex drive can be a powerful impetus... known colluder dave mcclure, for example, says that a good reason to start a startup is that "you can't get laid".