Infidelity and Startups

Being married and running an all-out startup is probably a bigger risk (unless your spouse is completely on board and works there too) to your marriage than the other way around (or even adultery).

The reason is simple, you only have so much time to spend on all the things that you have to do in order to launch a successful company, this can easily lead to your significant other to feel neglected (whether that's true or not is up for debate). Long hours, business trips, business crises, they're all par for the course.

Having a supportive spouse can help enormously but it definitely is not a guarantee.

Investors are just as interested in the moral fibre of their potential partners as they are in their ability to go over and beyond the call of duty. Being married is not always an advantage.

Oh, and of course investors would never cheat on their wives...

Is trustworthyness strongly related to success in business? It seems that, more often, successful people are characterised by their ruthlessness. Further, capitalism thrives on the selfishness of the invidual.

Ruthlessness and selfishness are two character traits that are found in people who are unfaithful.

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What an idiotic post. I have never seen any positive correlation whatsoever between fidelity in marriage and someone's business trustworthiness. Unless this guy has some very convincing evidence, what he says is moralising nonsense.

In fact in my experience the very opposite is true! I have friends who have gotten married; I know all about their personal lives, of course. The ones who've cheated are the risk-takers who get what they want. I would trust them over the scared little lifer accountants anyday. And I have never doubted their loyalty as friends, nor have I ever been given any reason to. These things just do not cross over like that.

Marriage is a complex institution. A man's sex drive is also complex. Drawing these simplistic conclusions is arrogant, insulting and holier-than-thou. I bet he doesn't invest in atheists, either, for some similar BS rationale.