The founders of Gurgaon usually make headlines for funding rounds, but this time, it’s a total collapse of personal credibility. Oendrila Kapoor, founder of The Date Crew, recently shared the story of a well-spoken, 30-year-old founder who was fast-tracked due to a mutual connection. It took three introductions before he casually dropped a bombshell: he had been married for 11 months. His defense? It was annulled, so it wasn’t “relevant.”
Oendrila’s take is brutal and necessary: “Withholding something that materially changes how someone understands you is a breach of trust. You decided what they were allowed to know and when. That’s not protection. That’s control. So we let both of them go. Not because they had a past. We work with divorced,
separated, complex histories all the time. But because they chose to work around the process. If you’re serious about matchmaking, be honest.”
It’s a pattern she’s seeing across the board—including a mid-thirties female client who only disclosed her divorce after onboarding, claiming “it’s in the past.”
The Internet Reacts: ‘Hire Private Investigators’
The Instagram comment section turned into a scorched-earth debate on accountability and the “entitlement” of urban professionals. “Hiding behind ‘this does not define me’… is just manipulative. Omission is betrayal and there is no smart way around it,” wrote one user.
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Another added, “These people are living in their own make-believe world… Too much of an entitlement mentality.”
Some users offered more practical solutions: “You need to hire private investigators to screen clients before on-boarding and have a deposit clause in the contract which nullifies refund if any secret background information comes up.” However, another user also added that a similar incident had happened with them: “I experienced the same thing. The guy didnt tell me he was divorced until I had to ask him and then he disclosed it. He said he didnt think it was important.”
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