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从Esprit创始人到Tory Burch:创业夫妻为何多以离婚收场?

从Esprit创始人到Tory Burch:创业夫妻为何多以离婚收场?

Deena Shanker 2015-01-22
并非每对商界夫妇都能像潘石屹和张欣那般比翼齐飞。夫妻二人共同打理一家公司绝非易事。起初夫唱妇随,最终劳燕双飞的例子比比皆是。当然也有正面案例,它们充分说明,“夫妻店”成功的关键在于划清工作与生活的界限。

    桑迪•雷纳与莱纳德•博萨克

    1984年,桑迪•雷纳与前夫莱纳德•博萨克共同创立了科技巨头思科公司。不过就在二人设计出突破性的重大发明,也就是能够连结计算机网络的路由器之后,雷纳却于1990年被公司的董事会开除了,此时她已经在公司辛苦经营了六年。同年,思科正式上市。博萨卡也与桑迪一起辞职了,但此事带来的情感伤害显然已经铸成。后来这对夫妻也宣告离婚。

    当事人说:在2013年的一次演讲中,雷纳向在座的女性建议道:“你不是公司,公司也不是你。”在思科的经历“毁掉了我的婚姻,损害了我的健康。我在感情上已经成了一个空心人。”

    结局:他们离开公司后,雷纳与博萨克以1.7亿美元卖掉了他们的三分之二的公司股份。后来雷纳创立了一个名叫Urban Decay的美甲品牌,后来她将公司卖给路易威登集团。目前该公司为欧莱雅所有。莱纳德据说已经退休了。

    Sandy Lerner and Leonard Bosack

    Sandy Lerner co-founded technology giant Cisco Systems in 1984 with her then-husband Leonard Bosack. After the two designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years building the company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public. Bosack resigned alongside her, but the emotional damage, apparently, had been done. The couple later divorced.

    Telling quote:In a 2013 speech, Lerner advised the women in the audience, "You are not the company, and the company is not you.” Her experience with Cisco "broke up my marriage and broke up my health. I was an emotional basket case."

    Upshot:When they left the company, Lerner and Bosack sold their two-thirds stake for $170 million. Lerner went on to create the nail polish brand Urban Decay, which she then sold to LVMH LVMUY . It is now owned by L'Oreal LRLCY . Leonard is reportedly retired.

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