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Comment by trhway | Hacker News Reader

>In July a former Tinder executive—and former Mateen girlfriend—named Whitney Wolfe went public with a salacious sexual harassment lawsuit that generated awful press and the CMO’s quick suspension.

it is simple - don't mix relationships and work. Reminds about that GitHub story too. And about a high-power couple and several low-power couples/relatives we have here across our organization too.

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Sounds simple until you realise that boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife teams have also done very well. Bezos started amazon with his wife, and of course we're having this conversation on the news aggregator of an accellerator that started after a conversation between PG and Jessica Livingston, who then extended their personal relationship into co-founding YC.

Maybe works better when they're the boss.

Starting a company with your wife is utterly different from starting a relationship with your not-yet-co-founder. If your relationship with your spouse goes to shit, everyone knows what the deal is - division of assets, etc. Spouses are incentivised not to 'harass' because they're afraid of what it will do to the settlement. This Tinder shit is so unclear it's actually devaluing the stock price!

From the sound of it, the scandal merely provided an opportunity for the parent company to take back power of a hugely valuable property. The scandal itself, while obviously unpleasant for all involved, didn't affect Tinder's performance as a fast growing app. At all as far as I can tell.

As far as relationships at work go, it's really hard to say that it's always a bad idea. Bill and Melinda Gates met at Microsoft and ... well it worked quite well. http://www.biography.com/people/melinda-gates-507408#persona...

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