A significant proportion of the people I know that won the startup lottery ended up losing the money when the girl they were into at high school flies themselves at them, has their kids, then goes back to the dude they were with before with the kids and child support, and this is relatively small fry and without any possible gov involvement.

The people in here acting like they would be immune to all this are kidding themselves.

This does not sound like something you've ACTUALLY encountered multiple times.

That remind me of founder of a really good, Realtime NoSQL Database .. RethinkDB . And his wisdom that he hard earned still reminds me not to repeat his mistake.. ~Don't Hire a Hot young girl before you have product market fit.

This sounds incredibly unlikely to happen to multiple people a person knows but “significant proportion” is vague enough for it to still be true even it’s just one. But, I think people are misreading that you’re suggesting these were honey traps rather than just high school crushes taking advantage of men they ignored earlier in life when they become rich and then abandoning them once they no longer are.

Marriage and hyperindividualism are a dangerous mix.

“If she’s a 10 she’s an (intelligence) asset”

That principle works for anyone with means to seize.

This is why I refuse to give up reading HN comments. For absolute nonsensical gems like this.

This reads like someone with zero familiarity with divorces or people in general.

- anyone with enough money to be targeted like this has enough money to get a prenup.

- most states do 50-50 custody these days unless one parent gives up their rights. So any child support would be decent, but not life-changing. Doubly so if the guy is rich enough to be targeted, in which case he's also rich enough to hire a good lawyer. The woman in this scenario has less money, so she can't get as strong a lawyer unless she's gambling that he'll have to pay her legal fees.

- With 50-50 custody the woman can't fly out of state to raise the kids, the court frowns on uprooting them from their hometown / school system.

The only way this makes sense is if the guy relinquishes all his rights to the kid, in which case he's hardly a hero either.

This isn't even considering the ridiculous notion that this woman has a man on the side just waiting for her to get knocked up with some millionaire's child.

> A significant proportion of the people I know that won the startup lottery ended up losing the money when the girl they were into at high school flies themselves at them, has their kids, then goes back to the dude they were with before with the kids and child support

What in the world are you talking about? Most successful people you know get honeypotted by their high school crush? I don't know anybody like that. How did you determine it was a honeypot and not just a regular divorce?

> The people in here acting like they would be immune to all this are kidding themselves

Maybe speak for yourself.

Dear world's intelligence agencies,

On the chance that I might one day become the CEO of a very important company, could you forward me my dream girl in advance? Thanks.

PH.

Sounds like you have little to no experience with people who won the startup lottery.

> The people in here acting like they would be immune to all this are kidding themselves.

People in here are probably salty that they are not valuable enough to be targeted by some sexy Chinese spy.

They're patriotic women in both cases; in the former case, by stealing industrial secrets, in this case, doing their duty to help decentralize their nations' wealth though the family court system, thus helping to solve the wealth inequality crisis.

This is kind of necessary with AI taking over jobs. If the situation gets worse, poor chad men will have to find themselves a rich mistress (or client) to support them financially. It might become the biggest non-tech industry. There will be entire teams of people working on just one rich tech guy's wife and competing against other teams to seduce her. The last remnant of a free market.