‘He Couldn’t Carry An Intellectual Conversation’: Mom Of A-Rod’s Silicon Valley CEO Ex-Girlfriend Isn’t A Fan

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Mila Kunis and MacCauley Culkin. Billy Corgan and Tila Tequila. Alanis Morissette and Ryan Reynolds. A-Rod and Anne Wojcicki. There must’ve been a glitch in the matrix for these four couples to get together, and there’s a reason why 0-4 lasted.

2016 was a weird time for A-Rod. The man who once dated Kate Hudson, Madonna, and now J-Lo, decided to spend the year changing directions with Silicon Valley CEO Anne Wojcicki. A-Rod and Wojcicki, who is the ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin, broke up at the end of 2016 after a year together. The couple claimed that being on separate coasts and parenting duties were the reasons for the breakup, but Anne’s mom offered a different reason.

‘I liked A-Rod, he was a very nice man,’ she told the New York Times. ‘He seemed to be genuinely in love with Anne.

‘But I right away figured out this was a mismatch. He had no academic background. We couldn’t have an intellectual conversation about anything.’

‘His main interest in life was something that none of us had ever focused on, which was baseball. He could park himself in front of a TV and watch baseball for 10 hours a day. He wasn’t even sure he wanted to go on the yacht with Anne because the TV might not be working. I wish J-Lo all the luck in the world.’

Scathing. But, when you consider the family Anne comes from, A-Rod’s indifference to academia was bound to be a problem. Anne joked to the New York Times “you’re only a viable fetus once you have your Ph.D.”

Her father is the former chairman of the Stanford physics department and an emeritus professor. Her mother was the valedictorian of her high school and is such a beloved high school journalism teacher, her former student–James Franco–sent her a video lauding her. Anne’s older sister Susan was Google employee No. 18 and is now the C.E.O. of YouTube. Her other sister Janet is an epidemiologist, medical anthropologist, associate professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and a Fulbright scholar.

A-Rod is a fish out of water in that family, and I personally think he’s better for it.

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[h/t New York Times]

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