The year was 2002 and Amy Andersen, a budding entrepreneur from , was nervously pitching an idea to her boyfriend. During parties with his tech friends from Silicon Valley, she had noticed that while they were CEOs and company founders — ‘all perfect on paper’ — they were all, oddly, single. ‘They would ask me, “Amy, where are all the great women?” At the same time, I was meeting a lot of impressive women who were struggling to find good men. That was my lightbulb moment. I thought, why don’t I do something to bridge the gap?’ After noodling with the idea of setting up an old-school dating network, where Amy would connect these two lovelorn groups, she took the idea to her boyfriend, ‘thinking he’d be so proud of me’. Instead, Amy recalls, he looked at her and announced: ‘You are not allowed to do that as long as we’re together.’
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