It takes teamwork for power couples to work while also maintaining a happy personal life.
Personal and professional demands—children, emails, meetings—challenge these duos' relationships.
From turning off the phone to watching Sunday night TV, these 16 power couples have unique ways to help each other stay on top of their game.
Jeff Bezos proofreads his wife Mackenzie's manuscripts.
Jeff Bezos, CEO and Chairman of Amazon.com, found help from his wife Mackenzie when starting Amazon, and it was reciprocated by Jeff, who served as an extra set of eyes for Mackenzie's novel manuscripts. They have since had four children, but that doesn't stop the couple's synergistic relationship.
According to a Vogue interview, "'Jeff is my best reader,' she says of her more well known spouse, who will cheerfully clear his schedule for the day, read her manuscript in one sitting, and give her meticulous notes on her work."
A close friend of the couple's told Vogue that “Family is very important to Jeff, and he absolutely relies on her to create that stable home life. They are such a normal, close-knit family, it’s almost abnormal.”
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.
David Goldberg saves work until Sunday night.
No surprise that the Sandberg-Goldberg couple is massively busy between balancing children, housework, and a couple of companies called Facebook and SurveyMonkey.
Sandberg, a media staple thanks to her views on "Leaning In" to ambition, prides herself on her relationship with Goldberg. Sandberg says the relationship labor-split is 50-50, making both of their goals more attainable and clearly embodying Sandberg's philosophy.
Goldberg says that his wife is his closest advisor, but when he does inevitably need to address work on his own, he waits until his family life is in order.
"I save everything up until Sunday night. If I start sending emails starting Saturday afternoon, then people respond by Sunday and I have to answer those. I don't respond before Sunday unless the email is urgent."
Brit and Dave Morin put their phones away at dinner.
The Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley — without the criminal record — Brit Morin is the founder of Brit + Co., while husband Dave Morin is the co-founder and CEO of Path.
While the two relate often and well about the type of work that goes on in the office, Mrs. Morin says the most arduous challenge of their relationship comes in leaving work at work.
"[Going to dinner without our phones is] our biggest accomplishment. We have the itch to reach into our pocket, but we don't."
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