…eigning godfathers of the Salt Lake Valley, mentoring and funding the area’s next crop of founders. In 2016, they banded together to launch a boosterish nonprofit, which they dubbed Silicon Slopes — a reference to the slopes of the jagged Wasatch Range that dominates the landscape around Salt Lake City — to support in-state entrepreneurs and seduce outsiders. Their fingerprints are all over the fourth-wave companies along I-15: Podium and Divvy both got ear…
