California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City

The dream, build a livable, affordable, eco friendly community. California Forever owns more than a 100 square miles of land here in Solano County, backed by Silicon Valley investors to build a new city. We're going back to what the Bay Area and Northern California used to do back in the sixties and seventies and eighties when it was the center for high-tech manufacturing in America. This new city will be entirely self funded and sustainable. The innovation engine that we have in Northern California Morning. As you've just heard, I run California Forever, which is building the next great American city. And we are building it right here in California. And I know what all of you are already thinking, which is, California? Really? Well, where are we today? We are in California. The All In Summit is in California. And I think that's kind of the point because despite all of its flaws and challenges, California is irreplaceable. Whether you like it or not, there is nowhere else in America that can play the role that California plays, in The United States right now. And so we have to fight for fixing all of the things that are wrong with the state. I was born in Eastern Europe in 1987 in The Czech Republic, which was two years before the Wall came down. And, growing up as a kid in post Soviet Eastern Europe, California California was the California dream. California was this. And then after twenty six years, I finally got here in 2013, and what I found was this. It was homelessness. It was people throwing rocks at Google buses. It was companies beginning to leave the state, and and all of it was entirely self inflicted. All of it. This was a self goal. 100% of it. Because we had failed to build enough of everything that you need to run an actual state. We failed to build enough housing. We failed to build enough office space. We failed to build enough factories. We failed to build enough freeways and trains and energy, all of it. And, I found it profoundly sad because to me, California and more broadly America, we we were defined by building to the rest of the world. I mean, we were the place that could build better than anyone else in the world. The Golden Gate Bridge was built in four years. The Boeing seven four seven went from an idea to carrying a fair paying passenger in three years. The Navy got the idea to build a nuclear submarine in 1951. It was in the water in 1954. And I thought it was really sad. Now, here's the good news. It took a while, but in the last few years, both on the left and on the right, we have realized that this question of how do we build in America is going to be the defining question of, the next twenty years. And that brings me to this. …