Robert Evans

But that that's coming in a bit.

What she sees right away with Rob is that Silicon Valley is filled with dudes.

who spent all their, you know, when they were in school, they were always studying.

They were big nerds.

They didn't spend a lot of time partying.

They didn't do a lot of dating.

And then they start working and they're workaholics and they don't spend a lot of time dating too.

And, you know, if they get married, they probably feel like they never got to sow their wild oats.

They didn't get to do enough partying.

They didn't get to have enough sex, right?

And they wind up bored and feeling like life is passing them by.

And she sees that in Rob and she realizes this kind of guy will do anything to prove to himself that he's not just another middle-aged, middle-class white guy with money.

Right.

I never got it in high school.

Right.

And yeah, he definitely a big part of what he feels is that like I will do anything to have sex with a lot of young women.

Right.

That's what that's what Nicole sees in Rob.

So she first enters Rob's life when he goes to a benchmark gathering and she walks in wearing this elaborate, sexy costume.

He would later describe it as like a moment from a movie where the music changes to mark an important plot point because all these guys want to feel like they're the leading man in a blockbuster film.