Last Thursday evening, I hopped out of an Uber in San Francisco’s Mission District to kibitz among the tech-political menagerie at the launch party for The San Francisco Standard, a new, promising and buzzy publication that is particularly popular with the city’s civic-minded tech crowd and is chaired by the Sequoia venture capitalist and former journalist Mike Moritz, who is funding the outlet with $10 million. As I approached the door, about an hour after the event’s start time, I did a double-take as a tall, suit-clad man—a rare sight in these parts—and his entourage disembarked from their car at the exact same moment: Was that Chesa?