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Jesus as Venture Capitalist

Remember when every rich techie was a libertarian? You don't hear that word so much these days. If there's a "New Right" in Silicon Valley, it's more of an old right, embodied in a figure like Trae Stephens—the Christian conservative venture capitalist who operates at the highest levels of US defense. Steven Levy's new Big Interview with him starts out with some niceties. How's business? How's life? Then it goes cosmic. By the end they're asking, what would Jesus do? It's great.

What else? Lauren Goode also Big Interviewed a venture capitalist recently—the less Jesus-y Mark Cuban, who's leaving Shark Tank to, as our headline puts it, "break shit." The shit being, in this case, insanely overpriced drugs. Power to him.

Online-only readers won't necessarily know this, but our latest print issue we devoted to seven Big Interviews. Hence the abundance of Q&As in recent weeks. One more for you today: Jason Parham's encounter with the up-and-coming comedian Josh Johnson. I first heard about Johnson maybe a year ago. Someone sent me one of his TikToks. Then someone else sent me one of his TikToks. When this happens, a WIRED editor knows what to do: Assign a story stat. It's how we stay so hip and cool.

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Jason Kehe, Features Editor

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