Business School Student: I’m Building My Professional Network By Meeting Guys On Sugar Daddy Sites
http://dealbreaker.com/2016/07/business-school-st…
Over at Inc today you will find what we can only assume is a piece of performance art, starring a UK-based business school student whose name has been withheld. For reasons unknown, the anonymous woman wrote a 1,271 word letter to one of the site’s business columnists, telling him, unsolicited, that while she deploys “many networking techniques” to build her future career, “there’s no question that my appearance has helped me a lot to meet highly influential people.” But chance meetings in bars with central bankers and hedge fund managers will only get you so far, which is why the letter-writer recently opened a Sugar Daddy/Sugar Baby account. Someone apparently once told her that even though the primary purpose of these sorts of sites is for old rich men to meet young rich women who will have sex with them in exchange for money, it’s also a totally legitimate place to find a “business mentor” who just wants to see your career flourish.
Still…
'' …when using the site, I still had to pretend I was interested in more than a guy’s job and contacts. We meet for dinner and usually talk a lot about business. For example, I met a Swedish entrepreneur who had sold his software company to Alibaba and became insanely rich. He was friends with Richard Branson and Bill Gates, which was quite impressive. We talked and I knew I had to impress this guy in order to get a meeting with him. First, he invited me to Greece. He said we would fly in his private jet and he would fly me back whenever I wanted. Even though this offer was very tempting, I refused due to an important coursework deadline. Then after a few weeks he texted me again and said he was in London and if I wanted to meet for dinner. We had been chatting a lot and I told him about my business idea. He was very keen on getting to know more and said he would be willing to invest.''
A few weeks ago we had a member (maybe a troll) hoping to get in Investment Banking via ''Sugar Daddies''. Most of the replies were outraged (I would say thankfully).
But apparently, it is happening...
