“But really, he was just a man-child with a lot of money.”
She broke up with him.“I thought he was a grown up because he had his own company,” she said. But she was low on his to-do list, and was frustrated with his last-minute cancellations - instead of seeing her he’d be coding, or getting beers with his team. At first Hannah found this exciting - she appreciated his drive and liked seeing his company grow. Hannah’s (not her real name) latest romance was with a 23-year-old founder, working on an app to ‘disrupt’ trading.
“Everything is prioritized over me,” she said. She blamed this on the fact that everyone she dates is a founder or works at a startup.