The 10 Most Powerful Couples In Tech


#7 Kevin Rose & Darya Pino

Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, the social news website. The success of the company took him to BusinessWeek cover in 2006. He was also a successful Angel Invester, and now a venture partner at Google Ventures.

Dary Pino is a food blogger, she has Ph.D in neuroscience. She founded a site Summer Tomato, and her writings on food feature here. The site was named on of the 50 best websites of 2011 by Time.

Kevin posted “Under this tree I asked +Darya Pino to marry me, she said yes!!!!!!!!!!” on 3 April 2012 in Google + page. The couple’s wedding is on cards.

#6 Fred & Joanne Wilson

Fred Wilson is a New York based venture capitalist and blogger; he is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm, which invested in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga and 10gen.

Joanne’s investments are different, out of seventeen companies she invested, thirteen are tech companies, among which ten are women-founded such as DailyWorth, Love.ly, Nestio and Red Stamp. She invests in anything she enjoys across all companies, such as food, gyms, real estate, brick and mortar business, and many more. She is famous as Gotham Gal.

When Joanne was in college, she rented a summer room in a fraternity from one of Fred’s brother, it was how they met. This year Fred and Joanne Wilson celebrated their 25th marriage anniversary, and have three children.