Four young entrepreneurs with a grandiose vision of building a utopia for the tech elite. A buzzy conference series attended by billionaires and celebrities like Harrison Ford and Jeff Bezos. Venture capital backers. A $40-million mountain ski resort. What could go wrong?
Summit Powder Mountain, a planned ski town on the top of Powder Mountain in Utah, was designed to be an eco-friendly community for techies, billionaires, creatives, and CEOs, born out of an idea from the young founders of the popular Summit series conference. But like many Silicon Valley moonshots, the plan ran into a litany of issues, and 10 years on, it’s fallen far short of its original idea. In her latest feature, my colleague Lila MacLellan dug deep into what Summit Powder Mountain, started in 2013, looks like today—and the host of problems that have hindered its progress.
