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January 22, 2018

Silicon Valley ‘Sex Party’ Story Disputed By Elon Musk, Others

SILICONE SILICON VALLEY—An explosive new book about Silicon Valley’s male-dominated business culture alleges that top technology executives and investors hold drug-fueled “sex parties” that have become an important part of the tech industry’s freewheeling, testosterone-driven business culture. But even with the release of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Bloomberg TV reporter Emily Chang still two weeks away, some of Silicon Valley’s top names are pushing back on the sexually loaded allegations. According to an excerpt from Chang’s book, published earlier this month in Vanity Fair magazine, “about once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon Valley Technorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party.” Chang says that the allegedly wild parties and the “freewheeling” sex lives of powerful male tech bosses and workers “have consequences for how business gets done in Silicon Valley.” Those consequences, she says, can involve holding back women from career advancement unless they agree to participate in the sexual activities of powerful men. Chang’s book describes one such “sex party” that took place last June at the home of powerful venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, 50, founder of the elite Menlo Park, California-based VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. In November of last year, Jurvetson was forced to resign from the company he founded amid sexual harassment allegations—accusations which he has denied.  According to the Vanity Fair excerpt from Chang’s book, the parties often feature a ratio of two women to every man, but while men on the exclusive invite lists are almost always “powerful first-round investors, well-known entrepreneurs, and top executives ... titans of the Valley, household names,” women require quite different attributes to score an invite to the high-level sexual soirées. “If you are attractive, willing, and (usually) young, you needn’t worry about your résumé or bank account,” Chang writes. “Some of the women work in tech in the Bay Area, but others come from Los Angeles and beyond, and are employed in symbiotic industries such as real estate, personal training, and public relations.” The parties, Chang wrote, feature liberal distribution and use of the euphoria-inducing amphetamine MDMA—better known as Ecstasy or “Molly”—and often end up with women and men huddled together in “cuddle puddles.”  “These aren’t group orgies, per se, but guests will break out into twosomes or threesomes or more,” Chang described. “They may disappear into one of the venue’s many rooms, or they may simply get down in the open. Night turns to day, and the group reconvenes for breakfast, after which some may have intercourse again.” But some attendees at the Jurvetson party, including Elon Musk, founder of the Tesla electric automobile company, and currently CEO of the private spaceflight organization SpaceX, the affair was not the debauched scene described by Chang, and in fact, was actually rather “boring.” Musk slammed Chang’s account of the party as “salacious nonsense.” “If there are ‘sex parties’ in Silicon Valley, I haven’t seen or heard of one,” Musk said in a statement to Wired magazine. “If you want wild parties, you’re in the wrong place. Obviously. That DFJ party was boring and corporate, with zero sex or nudity anywhere. Nerds on a couch are not a ‘cuddle puddle.’” One woman who claims to have attended the party, Mason Hartman, took to her own Twitter account to say that at the party she witnessed, “no sex...  no nudity” and “almost no cuddling.” Hartman called Chang’s reporting “unambiguously false.” At the same time, however, another self-described partygoer, Paul Biggar, gave a sharply differing account in a post on the blogging site Medium, an account which supported Chang’s description.  “I was there, and it’s way way worse than it sounds,” Biggar wrote—but he adds that he “didn’t see any sex or drugs” because, he says, he left the party at 12:30 a.m.  “I guess sex parties don’t really kick off until the boring fuckers go home,” Biggar continued. “But I can confirm many of the details at the party. The invite, the investor whose house it was, the decor and setup for the cuddle puddle. I’ve since spoken to Emily Chang and nothing she said is at odds with what I saw.” Chang herself responded to the criticism of her “sex party” reporting on her Twitter feed. "I recognize that at a large company party, different people have different experiences," Chang wrote. "In this case, one of my sources was propositioned there, others described drug use or felt uncomfortable. I can't speak for what other attendees experienced. But this party scene is just a tiny component of a much broader culture that has largely left women out of the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world, which I explore in-depth in my upcoming book. I believe that most readers will agree that it's about time for this conversation to happen." Pictured: Elon Musk.

 
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