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Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington of early-ish Microsoft went on to found and fund Valve.

Yeah — actually if you google there are a few "where are they now?" things. A few VCs etc.

we need more non tech women to marry and divorce craven tech men so that at least half of these scrooge like fortunes can get donated

edit: id love to tally all the donations done by techies and compare them to how much of bezos fortune has ended up routed to charity via his ex

If you're a tech billionaire, you don't marry unless you are incredibly stupid.

Altman and Thiel are also gay, so theres that too.

... Being gay does not limit altman or theil from getting married...

And last I checked, plenty of tech billionaires are married and by no stretch of the imagination stupid.

No idea where this comes from; I wasn't talking about a literal family tree but a figurative one (I grew up with Rock Family Trees)

Also: Altman is married.

i think i was trying to make the point that the type of person to make a shitload of money tends to be the type of person to hold onto a shitload of money