alt Hacker News> I don't see how sleeping with someone has any impact on the company.
In fact sleeping with a subordinate (look up Kimberly Powell) creates substantial legal risk for the company on its own, even without all the other stuff.
> We don't even know what arrangements him and his wife may have.
He apologized to his wife and said that his actions hurt her and that there was no excuse for what he did, soooooo, yeah we kinda do.
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Re: his wife, there is absolutely no way he would admit to some kind of open relationship thing in public, that would be even worse PR. Sleeping with an exec.. personally I don't care, this is incredibly common and there is no actual legal problem if there wasn't favoritism.
He didn't sleep with a subordinate - Alice Huang was an Nvidia client, not an employee.
Musk slept and has a child with Shivon Zilis who was his subordinate at the time, didn't seem to matter that much
Lots of people meet in the workplace, it seems a really US thing to be so hung up on it.