Bob Lee murder shines light on Silicon Valley’s sex and drugs scene
The popular image of Silicon Valley executives — barring some exceptions such as Elon Musk – is of billionaire computer nerds more interested in tweaking their software than a night on the town.
That stereotype may be out of date after a spotlight was shone on “The Lifestyle”, an underground party scene involving casual sex and drug use among tech industry elites.
Emily Chang, in her book Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, writes that executives justify their libertine excesses by boasting “about how they’re overturning traditional paradigms in their private lives, just as they do in the technology world they rule”.
At private parties held at multimillion-dollar San Francisco Bay Area mansions, executives are said to sometimes wear fancy dress
