“Money Makes You A TARGET!” - Billionaire Founder OPENS UP About Dating Lawsuits & False Accusations

So oh nine, when you leave Palantir and you're an advisor, uh, are you at this, are you married at that time or you're single? No, no. I got, I got married in a, I got married in 2016, 2016. Okay. So you're a rich young bachelor at this time. Is that fair to say? Okay. So how did you protect yourself? Because, well, actually I made a pretty dumb mistake. If you read about it, I had a girlfriend who ended up suing me, suing me after I broke up with her and didn't marry her in 20, 20, 12, 2013. So you're right. You got, you got to protect yourself. How do you do it though? Because, you know, I think looking back on it, I was working really, really hard and I had, you know, a very nice relationship that didn't work out. And then I had a kind of a rebound relationship with, with, I don't want, I don't want to, I don't want to talk too much about, about this person in particular, but it was something where it's probably not someone I should have been dating. And you know, I met in New York and she was at, she was at Stanford. She was 21, I was 28. And, and it was like, it turns out, you just got to be really careful like who you let into your life and how seriously you take relationships. Because if you're not careful, then it can cause a lot of trouble. And that's, that's a good lesson for, how'd you protect yourself? I mean, I think how you protect yourself is you should listen more to your family. I think it's not my family. I didn't think, thought there was some issues with them and I, and I should, I go, Oh no, she's really pretty and I'm busy and who cares? And it's like, actually it really matters to protect yourself enough. It's common sense who led into your life. I was very lucky that by the time actually I'd broken up and had been a couple of years of my time, they tried to sue. I'd already had a new amazing girlfriend who was really wonderful who ended up becoming my wife and is someone that my family really admired her and her family and respected her a lot. And that's, I think that's just really important to have to focus on getting a partner. You really, really respect who's the right match for you. You know, you've got no six kids. We have six, we have six beautiful young children. I'm a very lucky guy. Five, five little girls, which is, which is all, well, you got the money for it. It's going to be expensive there. They're there. I mean, well, you know why I asked that question? Because Trevor Bauer, I don't know if you follow baseball. Uh, uh, he's a good friend and he was playing baseball and he was doing great things. Cy Young, all this stuff. And then a girl accuses him just for the accusation. He lost a few hundred million dollars over it. Probably cost me a little bit too for about a year. A lot of people didn't, I became controversial. It became harder for about a year. I mean, obviously, I'm lucky I was successful enough. I could bounce back and get through it, but it's, it's totally unfair to a guy like that to have to deal with that. And this is, yeah, I think there was a period where you were basically guilty as soon as you were accused. I think a lot of people now have seen enough people for that's been happened unfairly that hopefully our culture is changing a little bit, but it's still very unfair how to handle these things. How do you, when you're rich and single, identify if a girl is with you for you or for you because of money, how do you do that? And I want to push back by the way on one thing. I think it's unfair how things work now. I think it was probably even more unfair how things worked in the 1930s, forties, fifties, sixties. I think we have to acknowledge that because I'm obviously I'm not a woke guy, but I think the world was at a place where a lot of men, it was a man's world and a lot of men were really nasty, abused woman, horrible things, and just got away with it. And I think that is wrong. Right? So I think, so I think we have to realize that the pendulum was here and now it's like swung too far the other way. But you know what? I'd rather, I'd rather face a little bit of a tough time as a, as a rich guy than have all these women being abused. So this is still wrong. It's just, it should be in the middle. But, but I think it's actually like, it's good that we're actually protecting these people. My wife and I were celebrating her birthday. So we go to ball Harbor and you know, ball Harbor. I couldn't walk anywhere without somebody saying hello to me. Who's Jewish. It's like filled with Jews everywhere in that area. And so, uh, we decide one night we're on game of throne, just to kind of tell you where we're at. We're at the two episodes after the red wedding or whatever they call it. That's kind of what we are. Right. We haven't seen anything else. And then my wife, she says, babe, thank God. I'm a woman born today because how different it was back in the days. So it was difficult, was vicious. It was a whole, it was, it was a crazy world. Can I tell you a funny story about that? So I'd mentioned that Mildred Freeman, I used to hang out with his colleague who was older than him was Dr. Bikeman. He was 96 when I was at Stanford. And he had been a reporter in the white house in the late 1930s. So, so he was like a window for me until like, it's like completely different time. Right. Cause that's like, you know, cause he was 60 years, 26, 20 years, 65 years ago from when I, from when I, from when I met him in the white house. And I thought the funniest, he's telling stories. So he would in the FDR white house, it'd be spring break and they'd all go on the train and it'd be journalists. It'd be senders from both parties and it'd be the guys in the white house. And the first two stops of the train, all the girlfriends and escorts would get on and they'd all go together. And these people would be attacking each other like crazy with their journalists for the, for the business of government. But they both be with their girlfriends or everyone else getting in trouble and never would say anything about that. Isn't that, isn't that crazy? It was a totally different world. It was a man's world. It was just a different world. And I'm not saying that's good. It's just fascinating how much the world has shifted. You know, that you can never imagine that. Yeah. Do you believe it? I believe it. I believe that. Exactly. Oh, definitely. Definitely. You read about it. You see about it. You know, uh, it's a, it's a very different world, but going back to it, advice, think about it. Guys ask, you know, I read Steven Schwartzman's book and he's talking about how, uh, uh, what it takes. He says he was going through a divorce. He was worried about what to do. He had been married for 25 years. He says, I get recommended to go see this one guy who was a very successful therapist, a marriage counselor. And I said, I have four concerns. Uh, how do I, at my age, get back into the dating world? Number two, what happens with my kids? Number three, what happens with my money? Number four, what happens with my friends? Do they choose her or me? And the guy gave him very good advice. He said, your kids are going to be okay. You're going to be fine. There's plenty of girls that are going to want to be with you. Number three, do you have a prenup with your wife? He says, no. He says you're going to lose some money. And then number four, he says about friends, he says, you're going to lose half your friends because they're going to side with her. But I'm talking like for a guy like you who made money is wealthy, is single looking for a wife. How do you tell them apart? You know, you, you meet people through friends, you meet people through people you admire. And I think there's a lot of wonderful families and a lot of, you know, wonderful young women out there. And I think it's the most important to be with someone who you really respect and where you have a shared, strong base of values. And my, my wife couldn't, my wife converted to Judaism when we have just a really strong base of tradition in our family that we're building together. And then we talk a lot about values and what we care about. And she's someone who, you know, I think, I think if you have a really great wife, she makes you want to be a better person to live up to her, to her vision of things for you guys. Good for you. Respect. So going through somebody, you know, and trust that again, going back to the same way you recruited people. And I mean, I got, I got really lucky. I'm not sure I could find my son. Sometimes you just gotta get lucky. Are you going to hit double digits? That's the question. Are you guys going to reach double digits or six is it? I think six kids might be it, but we'll see. We'll see. I was telling her about a guy I met yesterday was 11 kids with his wife. He's 46, no twins, no adopting all theirs. And they hit 11 kids. I think his name was Moshe. If I'm not mistaken, orthodox thing to do. When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort function and luxury, we had the choice to make it fast. We had the choice to make it cheap. We chose neither. Instead, we chose Tuscan needle. We chose true Italian craftsmanship. Each pair touched by 50 skilled hands. We chose patients spending two years, perfecting every detail. 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