Drugs and orgies: how private parties are held in Silicon Valley

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At secret parties in Silicon Valley use drugs, drink and engage in group sex. About this journalist Emily Chang wrote in the book "Brotopiya", which was published in 2018 year edition Vanity Fair, writes Tjournal.

Some parties were held at home by a colleague Ilon Mask entrepreneur, head of the investment firm DFJ Steve Yurvetson. In November, 2017, he left the post of head of the company amid accusations of sexual harassment. The representative of Mask acknowledged that the entrepreneur was also present at the so-called "sex party". However owner Tesla and SpaceX took the event for a masquerade and only talked with the guests about the work.

He, like other people from Silicon Valley, called the story of Chang fiction.

How were the parties

Chang talked to 20 participants in secret events, who told about the parties. She writes that parties of workers of the Silicon valley took place in several places. Sometimes in one of the most expensive areas of San Francisco Pacific Heights or in a private chateau in Napa County. On special occasions, participants went to a private beach in Malibu or traveled by boat to Ibiza.

Venues were constantly changing, but the common core of people remained. These were mainly large investors, well-known entrepreneurs or top managers.

Chang claims that for every man at the party there were at least two attractive girls. Male guests (only the organizer invited them) could bring an unlimited number of girlfriends. At the event called in Facebook or Snapchat (Chang notices that in this application messages are quickly erased). Invitations were never given as "sex parties", so as not to compromise the guests.

The guests came to the appointed place in the evening, the guards checked their names on the list and let them through. Sometimes the organizer prepared meals in advance, but most of the invitees did it together. In parallel, they drank and then switched to drugs.

Chang writes that it was a form of MDMA known as Ecstasy. After the use of substances Silicon Valley workers began to hug and kiss each other, and later it turned into an orgy of three people or more. The guests spent the night at the venue, had breakfast in the morning and, in some cases, had sex again.

Chang writes that these events were not perceived as something scandalous or secret - rather as a way of life. Both married people and couples in love came there. The journalist claims that the wave of charges of harassment did not prevent guests of events from kissing and having sex with each other. One of the parties went a week after the accusations of sexual harassment from investor Justin Kaldbek (November 2017 of the year).

At the November party, one of Chang’s interlocutors (she calls her Jane Doe) was offered “Molly” - this is one of the names of MDMA. At this time, several people were lying on the floor in the living room and stroking each other, and a certain venture investor was walking around the house in a rabbit costume. Then Jane Doe tried the drug, and one of the guests asked if she could kiss her. The girl asked about this the wife of the man, and she was not against it. According to Jane Doe, who after a few hours at the party went home, the power at these events belongs to influential people. “This is a problem because it is an abuse of power. I would never do that again, ”the girl said.

The rhetoric of “abuse of power at work” became widely discussed, including after a wave of accusations of sexual harassment against the well-known producer Harvey Weinstein in October 2017.

The reaction to the story of Chang

In conversation with Wired Representatives of the investment firm DFJ, co-founded by Steve Yurvetson, apologized and promised to take action based on the Chang investigation. The company explained that they had never heard of the cases described by the journalist. At the time of this writing, Jurvetson did not respond to requests from American publications.

Entrepreneur Ilon Mask admitted that he attended parties in Silicon Valley, but called the investigation Chang "nonsense."

“If there are sex parties in Silicon Valley, I have not heard or seen anything about them. If you want jaunty parties, you are in the wrong door, ”said the head Tesla and SpaceX.

Investor Jason Calacanis also stated that he had attended Steve Yurvetson's parties with his wife, but had never encountered the description described in Chang. Many sources Wired in Silicon Valley, including investors, questioned the work of Chang. They suggested that the journalist could have confused city events, which the organizers called "technology parties", with the collections of Silicon Valley employees.

Entrepreneur Paul Biggar wrote a detailed post on Medium about the party that Jane Doe described. According to him, the story was much worse than in the material Chang. He was allegedly warned not to photograph what was happening and not to tell about what he had seen. The entrepreneur admitted that the event was attended by "rich and powerful" people, including Ilon Musk and investor Jason Calacanis.

Biggar left the event at 12pm and did not see any alcohol, drugs or anything controversial. “Apparently the “sex parties” don’t start until all the boring losers have gone home. I didn’t know that this was such an event, at some point I got bored and went home. But I can confirm many details of the party. Invitations, investors, whose home it was, decor and groups of people. I spoke with Emily Chang and nothing she said contradicts what I saw,” said entrepreneur Paul Biggar.

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