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I work for a large, bureaucratic company. The only restrictions on dating (and we have a ton of HR rules) is about reports. As long as you neither of you report to each other or have any influence on position etc., corporate has no problem with dating.

I can't imagine a startup caring unless you actually cause the drama, and this doesn't sound like that case.

Grow up.

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There's a huge difference between startups and a huge corporation!! think small teams. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done at all I'm just saying one should expect drama in the workplace after you decide to cross over that rubicon, especially in a software startup

well, the founder's wife has some issue with Julia. The story sounds like a fight for a position of an alpha-female. That gives non-zero probability to the idea that either Julia's partner may have been of some interest to the wife, or Julia's behavior toward the founder looked like a challenge to the wife.

Possibly, but the story didn't mention any conflict over the person she is/was seeing.

The founder's wife definitely seems to have a problem with Julie, but it isn't clear from the tech crunch article why that was originally.

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