Wealth
A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love
- Pre-marital agreements can guard against the chaos of divorce
- Many founders ‘plan to have a lot of money,’ lawyer says
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The young woman in Monica Mazzei’s San Francisco law office was adamant: She wanted a prenuptial agreement.
Never mind that the client had barely anything to her name. What she had was a bunch of startup ideas. She and her fiancé, who already had his own small tech company, signed a prenup with clear terms, Mazzei said: “The spouse who has an idea [and] starts a business ‘owns’ that business. It’s their baby.”