Inside Silicon Valley’s strangest founder getaway
His favorite memory, though, is of hanging out in the library, where the elder Conway keeps an eclectic mix of volumes, including “The Tantric Way,” “Navajo Textiles,” and the fantasy romance bestseller “A Court of Thorns and Roses.” Sitting in a circle, Marcu and guests listened to Conway’s Lawrence of Arabia tales and were moved to open up “about our own struggles, our own interests, our own curiosities,” Marcu said. “It felt very, very raw.”
Conway the Elder can barely recall the names of all the people who have come through his home — “Sergey and whatever his name,” he said of the Google founders — but he loves to see the Silicon Valley crowd marvel at his artifacts and stories of adventures to remote corners of the globe — places that are being transformed by the very technologies his guests helped build.
