Except at peer tech companies like, say, Google.

Some people get to have affairs with subordinates, others don't. It's a question of if they have the support of the people pulling the levers or not as to whether it's considered acceptable. Universal rules are for little people, once beyond a certain position they are merely tools for selectively shutting out opposition.

Google, Facebook, et al have dual class/super-voting shares. The top people have more than 51% of the vote.

Tesla is an outlier here -- Musk currently has 20%, and that's up from like 12%.

Jensen has like 5%. Jobs owned 11% of Apple when he was forced out.

It should be fairly obvious why people who control the vote of q company can get away with more than people who don't.

+1. I'm sure Danny is well aware of what happened/s at Google.

Google was a clusterfuck (literally?) of people boning other people they shouldn't have been.

It's not really a counterexample, though, because most of the people in question are no longer there, and lost their jobs over their affairs. As far as I've heard, Sundar is pretty clean, almost robotic, and has a low-profile personal life. He is the polar opposite in that regard of Sergey (who was a walking HR violation) and Eric (whose NDA-bound mistresses are legendary across Silicon Valley). Much of the reason why they have stepped back from operating roles and fucked off to being class-B shareholders only is because their personal lives are a liability to a major company operating in the environment that Google does today.

DannyBee is undoubtedly well aware of that, having been a lawyer for Google during the time period when this went down.