
- Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom, inventing a video calling app to call his long-distance girlfriend. Joined WebEx as one of the earliest engineers and eventually started his own company ([Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2017/03/06/zoom-ceos-promise-to-his-wife-helped-inspire-a-1-billion-valued-company/)

- Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle, made the game for his wife who was a huge fan of the NYT Daily Crossword ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html))

- William Steward Halsted, inventor of rubber gloves, made them for his wife after her hands were chapped and red after surgeries ([Link](https://museumofhealthcare.blog/the-story-of-the-gloves-of-love/#:~:text=William%20Stewart%20Halsted%20and%20Caroline,a%20loving%20but%20strange%20relationship))



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