#dating #push-and-pull #mark-zuckerberg #entrepreneur #power-game #alignment #break-up Created at 240223 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought Last modified date: 240223 Commit: 0 # Related - [[Business/VC vs entrepreneur]] - [[Business/Venture capital]] - [[Business/VC]] - [[Philosophy/Humans/Romance/Dating]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/Cofounder interview]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # VC Dating vs Cofounder Dating vs Romantic Dating Typically, the first obvious difference is that you don't have sex with your VC or cofounder (to my knowledge, I'm open-minded though) So what are the differences? I think they all share this [[Push and pull]] dynamic. For example, when [[Mark Zuckerberg]] met these VC (from [[Accel]]? @ [[Brad Feld - Venture Deals Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist]]) in pyjama, he was playing the push dynamic while [[Entrepreneur]]s who struggle to have success usually go and pull VCs. So yes, [[Power game]]s are played until alignment or break-up. In the preliminary steps you also usually start with the [[Status game]] which allows you to filter good from bad partnership, for example a VC who see "YC23" on the entrepreneur profile will increase the likelihood of being attracted to him. The equivalent in romance can be an expensive car for the man (in a heterosexual [[Relationships|relationship]]), because women wants a [[Wealth|wealth]]y male that can sustain their children. The woman on the other hand will show a fit body, for example by wearing tight pants to attract attention and display her capacity to carry healthy children. >Women go out of their way to make themselves attractive to their partners, making up their faces to look nice, dressing to maintain a partner’s interest, and acting sexy to distract a partner’s attention from other women. >~ [[David M. Buss]]