Silicon Valley ‘sex party’ furore: Irish tech founder speaks out

Irish tech founder Paul Biggar attended party featured in Vanity Fair

Emily Chang, a former Bloomberg anchor who has lifted the lid on a world of bacchanalian excess and at the highest levels of the Silicon Valley tech scene Pic: Bloomberg

Dublin technology entrepreneur Paul Biggar has found himself embroiled in a “sex party” controversy that is making waves in Silicon Valley.

On January 2, Vanity Fair published an extract from a new book called Brotopia by journalist Emily Chang, which described the general macho culture of Silicon Valley, as well as details of what she claimed was a sex party in the mansion of an unnamed multimillionaire venture capitalist.

Chang wrote that the ...