Power Law in Dating


I believe most of us heard friends around saying “Date multiple girls/guys simultaneously, distribute the risk, so to find the Mr or Miss Right”. Make it a portfolio, just like your investment brokers usually say. However, it maybe wrong.

0.01% of Google is probably worth a lot, lot more (35 million dollars) than 100% of a startup that you’ll start. And most startups fail, in which case you’ll own 100% of nothing.

Said Peter Thiel in the book “Zero to One”. Our focus is to find the right girl, rather than seeing a pool of girls and hope the right one is in there.
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