Lady Gaga’s new boyfriend – what do we know about Michael Polansky, the tech CEO working for Facebook billionaire Sean Parker?
He went to Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg and now runs the Parker Foundation for the former Napster founder – but what else do we know about Gaga’s illustrious new beau?
Lady Gaga has a new boyfriend, and he hails from the tech world.
The singer and actor has posted a photo on her Instagram with Michael Polansky, a tech CEO who works for Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker.
The couple have reportedly been dating since at least New Year's Eve, and attended the Super Bowl together earlier this week. Here's everything we know about the tech exec.
Michael Polansky has worked in tech for nearly a decade. He attended Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg and, according to his LinkedIn, went on to work at Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel, the first outside investor in Facebook.
Polansky later served as COO for Airtime, the secretive video-chat platform founded in 2011 by Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning.
Polansky appears to have been involved in several of Parker's other ventures since 2010.
According to his LinkedIn page, he's executive director of the Parkers' charity, the Parker Foundation; he's a board member at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy; he's managing partner at Parker Ventures; and he's CEO of the Parker Group, which serves as the umbrella organisation for all of Parker's other endeavours.