21 VIP Couples In Tech


Bangalore: “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” -Benjamin Franklin.

People believe that with love comes; blindness and an absolute flaw in reason but that holds true only for the day when saint valentines weaves his magic. Today since we are not bound to that spell any longer, let’s take a look at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest who have found love but never lost their wits. Here is the Fascinating ‘techie’ list of Power and Passion.

#21 Ali and Mark Pincus

After a few months cavorting around Aspen and partying with movie stars, Mark settled down and got engaged to his girlfriend Alison Gelb, who works at magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi and whom a friend describes as "a huge prize" for Pincus. Pincus currently serves as CEO of Zynga, and online gaming site, which had 298 million monthly active users as of February 6, 2013.

#20 Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki

Sergey Brin met his wife Anne Wojcicki through her sister Susan who rented a garage for Google when it was just starting out. While we all know about Google, not everyone knows about Wojcicki's startup 23andMe, which does genetic testing and has identified a gene that could reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease. Here's a weird detail about the couple: According to the New York Times they wore bathing suits for their wedding -- he in black, she in white. They were married on a sandbar and some guests swam out for the ceremony.

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