http://home.mcom.com/mozilla.org/1998-03-25/party/
That party was a huge milestone in retrospect. It was the day FOSS went mainstream. Shortly thereafter, the dot-com boom ended and the 90s tech parameters got upended and scrambled.
At some point he did write why he bought the club, he was moaning about the state of night life in SF, and a friend said something like "Why don't you do something about it?"... so he did.
Edit: found it: https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/1998-1999.html