Was this a date?
“And if there’s not, then it’s just a good networking opportunity. Katie Istomin, a rising sophomore at Cornell, wants to make sure that anyone she’s giving up time for will match her ambition and understand her busy schedule.
Once they were outside with a pint, “he was kind of like, ‘This is a date, isn’t it?’” Gordon-Craig said. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’” “If there’s a spark, then it’s great,” Gordon-Craig said.
San Diego-based financial adviser Amal Hagisufi was simply recruiting for an empty role on her team when she sent a connection request to Moustafa Madkaur. Initially he ignored her efforts. “But she’s very persistent. Madkaur took Hagisufi to a waterfront restaurant where they discussed professional, financial and personal life goals.
“Being in banking, I got these recruitment messages all the time,” Madkaur said. “It was way more smooth than the way I had been previously approached on the dating apps,” Hagisufi said. “Everything was aligning,” Hagisufi said. “We knew that we wanted to grow together and become, like, a boss couple.”
