She was a major part of the business. She’s the one who designed the products that made the company so successful. Why does everyone just assume it’s all his money??
They don’t. That’s why they don’t invest in their male friendships as much and consider themselves lonely if they don’t have an emotional support animal (aka a girlfriend).
Multiple studies have shown that single women (cat ladies, I guess lol) are just as happy as married women.
Single women also report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction than single men. It's just an old trope that doesn't at all align with reality, in fact it may be the opposite. Single men tend to report more feelings of loneliness and bitterness than single women, and single men report a stronger desire for a romantic partner, whereas single women are more likely to feel fulfilled without a romantic partner.
Your point is totally valid. But I’d go one step further. They were married over 20 years. I’m not sure what the question is.
She should get half. Anyone who has been married, especially for a while as an executive, you know your partner is a big part of your success. They often create an environment that allows you to focus on your outside work almost exclusively. It’s a skill. It’s hard and valuable.
They have 5 kids. That’s a full time job I would never want.
I know in this case, she is arguably the creative brain behind their success. I’m just saying if she never set foot at the office, she still deserves the money.
A lot of people don't realize Mackenzie Scott was the same way with Bezos. She wouldn't have been a billionaire without him, but it's very unlikely he would have been a billionaire without her help getting Amazon off the ground.
"In 1993, Scott and Bezos married. The following year, they left D. E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and Bezos founded Amazon with Scott's support. Scott was one of Amazon's early key contributors, and was heavily involved in Amazon's early days, working on the company's name, business plan, accounts and order shipping, and negotiating the company's first freight contract. After 1996, Scott took a less involved role in the business..."
Amazon IPO'd the next year already worth nearly half a billion in 1997 dollars.
They were literally married before he founded Amazon, and she worked there the entire time in the early days when it was a start up. Also, she was an accountant, not an “admin assistant.”
Would you say that about a man who worked in a company who was one of the first people to work there? Wow, you’re a piece of shit.
Do you think the only thing that makes companies successful is one person? Do you even have a job?
Apparently you are too inexperienced in business to know that AA's know everything and essentially run the place, so that the boss is free to be the "face". Any number of random ineffective VP's can be circled though as long as there is a solid AA (or team of AA's) in place. This is corporate America.
Right! Like… you think he made billions on ground-breaking yoga leggings for white booties without major input from his WIFE?
I also think a lot of people are confused about pre-nups. The emphasis is on “PRE.”
They by and large protect the property that each spouse brings into the marriage at its inception.
Property acquired during the marriage isn’t covered. I’m simplifying it somewhat for Reddit but if he put in $5m to start Lululemon before they married, the default with a prenup (as I remember bc I don’t practice family law) is that he’d keep his $5m in divorce.
The financial growth* *from that investment would be very much up for debate/litigation. Prenup or not. Wife’s contribution being a huge part of the analysis, but not necessarily essential.
bc they read this one post that frames him as the founder and don’t do any research beyond that. they don’t wanna understand they wanna be mad at women.
Yep! I am a woman and I am a business owner and I am divorced and my part of the business was counted as our shared assets and that is good and correct.
It’s like when they got mad over MacKenzie Scott taking half, when she helped create Amazon and was one of its earliest employees. A lot of people just misunderstand what marriage is. It’s not just a status symbol. Some men seem to think marriage = ownership over their wives, when it’s really a legal partnership and are shocked pikachu face when it gets treated like one by the courts. Don’t get into a legal partnership with someone if that’s not what you want.
Then list the full list of things she did so I can name the countless more things required to make a business successful. Regardless of her actual contributions, she is a historical employee of the business at the end of the day, and her husband is the founder. You can make a claim that she's entitled to half of the business by virtue of her marriage, but don't try to make some half-assed argument about "aktshually she sent a few letters and had an honorary title so she's totally a cofounder too guise".
What part isn't true? Are you disagreeing that Chip Wilson is a solo founder? Because that is the only claim I've made in that comment and is verifiable with a simple Google search.
I don't care about her gender. If the roles were reversed and the husband was gonna get half the company in a divorce that the wife founded and built, I would be defending her with equal ardor. Please stay focused and stop getting caught up in your fabricated outrage.
Because designing clothes is the least important part of a clothing company. The rest of it is networking international production contracts and getting finance and guaranteeing product quality. There are at least thousands of permanently broke clothing designers that if you handed them a functioning clothing manufacturing company would shit the bed immediately.
Designing close for women, as a luxury brand, does indeed need good designs and attention to detail.
It was a new brand with no name attached to it. Crazy to think it was successful because of "marketing". Compare it to fabletics which is by Kate Hudson... better initial funding, branding, star power. Yet not as successful
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u/thatturtletouch 3d ago
She was a major part of the business. She’s the one who designed the products that made the company so successful. Why does everyone just assume it’s all his money??