Last year, over the course of a couple of months, a series of articles—in the New York Times and Vanity Fair and local outlet The San Francisco Standard—covered a particular San Francisco party. Guests sipped cranberry-apple cosmos, ate Burmese curry, and pitched their start-ups. So far, so Silicon Valley. But they also nodded along to DJ-mixed worship beats and listened to a tech investor and a scientist talk about Jesus. The party took place inside a converted church.
Odd, right? Who would have thought, in secular SF? The articles attempted to offer an explanation—not just for the party but for the success of its sponsoring organization, ACTS 17 Collective, which, as another article in Wired put it, has gathered a “high-profile network of investors and founders” to promote a “new moral vision for the tech industry.” No more empty pursuits of wealth, power, and ayahuasca. Try Jesus instead.
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