Vogue tried to figure out what makes Marissa Meyer click (pronounced like the hot dog, not the singer, apparently).
More importantly for our purposes, we wanted to see how life is going for her fiance (yes, we know that needs an accent, but we don’t know how to do it in WordPress), Zack Bogue. As you recall, he’s a Wilson Sonsini alum and our article about their engagement still ranks among our most-popular non-layoff posts.
The relevant parts after the jump.
Bogue was pitched to Mayer as “a lawyer/investment manager/athlete/philanthropist.” The guy needs four roles just to keep up with Mayer, the “34-year-old megamillionaire, Oscar de la Renta–obsessed, computer-programming Google executive who lives in a penthouse atop the Four Seasons, San Francisco.”
So we know he’s a lawyer (Harvard BA, Georgetown JD) at Virtual Law Partners and spent several years at Wilson Sonsini.
The “investment manager” is presumably from his founding of Montara Capital Partners,
a San Francisco-based real estate company specializing in the acquisition of institutional-grade property on behalf of individual investors. Specifically, Montara focuses on the acquisition of properties with stabilized revenues suitable for 1031 exchanges via a tenancy-in-common structure.
(Whatever that means – he was executive editor of The Tax Lawyer in law school)
The athlete part is just a lifestyle thing – they run marathons, cross country ski, do triathlons, etc. And one of his partners there is Hal Morris, first baseman for the Nasty Boys-led 1990 World Champion Cincinnati Reds.
Not sure about the philanthropy, but it seems like he comes from money. He also does some pro bono and work and is a director of some charities.
We always figured that one of the best parts of the virtual law practice was staying home and working your own hours in your pajamas, but the poor guy doesn’t even know where’s going to lie down at night.
They spend every night together, at any one of their three homes—his loft in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, her penthouse, or her house in Palo Alto (for late nights at the Googleplex).
And to make matters worse, she has him up at the crack of dawn:
She’s also converted him to sleeping an hour less per night. On a recent trip to Wausau, Mayer worked late into the evening, revising a speech she was to deliver at a Midwestern university. Her mother, Margaret, says, “It was one of those long-night-type things. She woke Zack up at 5:00 a.m. and wanted to give her speech; I said, ‘Zack, you signed up for it. Now you know.’ ” Zack knows and thrives. “Marissa is a ball of energy. We feed off each other and wake up in the middle of a 34-mile cross-country [skiing] trek.”
The icing on the cake is that her workaholic habits are rubbing off on him. Isn’t VLP supposed to be the last bastion of work/life balance? What is this all about?
They share a passion for cooking (Bogue: “There are people who grill and there are people who cook. We like to cook”) and marathons and triathlons with minimal prep (Mayer: “I like to get myself in over my head. Zack has that same trait”) and hard labor. “We continue to do work in the evening,” says Bogue. “There’s never a distinct line between work and home. Marissa’s work is such a natural extension of her. It’s not something she needs to shed at the end of the day.” He adds wryly, “She has converted me to bringing my laptop everywhere: You never know when you’ll get fifteen minutes’ worth of work done.”
At least he’s billing by the hour.
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