Is it any wonder that "pattern-matching" results in endless boy bands?
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People used to ask me whether I was dating my male cofounder. It was awkward not least bc I had two male cofounders (both w long term gfs)
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I am so over the "cofounding is like dating/marriage" metaphors. You know what it's like? It's like a business partnership. Which women have
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I think it just comes down to a lot of unmarried people with strong pair bonding drives making sense of actual external pressure to continue
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Replying to @dakami @andreasdotorg
I don't think I understand what you're saying here.. drives to continue what?
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Replying to @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg
I'm just saying a lot of the emotional beats of relationships that produce children, are exhibited in relationships that produce companies.
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It's not particularly metaphorical, or even gendered really.
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"Are you dating your cofounder" is unquestionably ignorant, of course.
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Replying to @dakami @starsandrobots
A insult, even, insinuating it's about the personal relationship, not about the value as a founder brought to the table.
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Replying to @andreasdotorg @starsandrobots
I think people see a guy and a girl really clicking (as good cofounders do) and imagine things. Sometimes, yes, that he's carrying her.
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Indeed. But I once ended up dating a person of the same gender because we really clicked with the research we were doing. Exists too.
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Replying to @andreasdotorg @starsandrobots
Oh absolutely. There aren't really strict lines. Affinity is affinity.
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