I run a company that makes money. My wife works for me and I work for her and it works great. She is on my board so she is part of the team that can fire me.

I run a company that makes money. My wife works for me and I work for her and it works great. She is on my board so she is part of the team that can fire me. She does the books (accounting) for the company so she works for me. She's a very smart person and I value her opinion and every time she says that we should get someone else to do the books I say no because then she'd be less connected to the company and her board value would go down. I do not think this will work for everyone. I suspect it works for us because we are a team in our marriage and we know it and own it. I pity the fool that messes with us, we're a team. BTW, I agree with the comments that said that if you are in a startup your spouse is there too. When we got going I always got the permission of the spouse to hire the person. It's the right thing to do in many ways.