Watson linked to Stanford MBA venture capitalist
Over the past several years, Emma Watson has been at the forefront of a curious phenomenon in our contemporary culture.
It is that Silicon Valley and the larger tech world have become the new go-to places for highly desirable actresses and models to find boyfriends and sometimes even husbands.
The 28-year-old “Beauty and the Beast” star has a new boyfriend: Brendan Wallace, 37, a Los Angelesbased CEO with a Stanford MBA who runs Fifth Wall Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in startups, People reported.
Watson was seen kissing Wallace Saturday while on vacation in Mexico. But Watson previously has enjoyed the companionship of a man from the tech world.
For two years, the “Harry Potter” actress dated William “Mack” Knight, a manager for a Palo Alto-based tech company. Like Wallace, Knight also was somewhat older than Watson — in his mid-30s. Knight and Watson appeared to have broken up last November.
Watson is an Ivy Leaguer with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Brown University. Her interest in guys who might once have been classified as nerds isn’t unusual these days.
Moguls and social media barons have taken over from movie stars, athletes and rock gods — not just on rich lists, but as society’s “alpha men,” the Sun reported in 2017. “Ever since Steve Jobs made computers cool and millennials started living online, nerds are king,” the Sun said. “Being a cofounder of a company is this decade’s equivalent to being a rock star or a chef.”
That means tech guys are now landing female celebrities who once would have gravitated to other entertainers or athletes.
One example is the marriage of former Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr and Snapchat billionaire Evan Spiegel. Kerr was married to actor Orlando Bloom for three years before they divorced in 2013. She started dating Spiegel in 2015. They married in 2017 and became parents to a son in May.
Wallace graduated from Princeton in 2004 and got his Stanford MBA in 2010. He previously co-founded Cabify, Latin America’s largest ride-sharing service, and has led investments in Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, Philz Coffee and Zenefits, People added.