Posted on 10/15/2013 11:07:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On a characteristically foggy evening here, a group of predominantly single venture capitalists, tech executives, hedge-fund managers and philanthropists gathered for a cocktail party in a penultimate-floor suite at the St. Regis apartment complex.
As guests ate oysters, baby lamb chops and perhaps the world’s smallest cheeseburgers, they were pitched a multiday, intellectually rigorous singles mixer to be held in January 2014 on Necker Island, Richard Branson’s 74-acre Caribbean paradise, “curated” by Kelleher International, a long-running, high-end matchmaking service that is targeting Silicon Valley with particular vigor.
Wearing an Alexander McQueen dress and towering Valentino heels as she sold the idea was the company’s 44-year-old chief executive, Amber Kelleher-Andrews.
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Who uses matches nowadays? I thought everyone used Zippos?
Do people still even smoke?
Why get matched when you can get torched?
Bwahahahahahaha!
“I don’t understand it; I met her at a mixer and we hit it off great. Then, six months after we were married, she divorced me and took half my stuff....”
What, craigslist isn’t good enough for these hoity toity tycoons?
I thought we already had Millionaire Matchmaker?
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