Jan Sramek

We're going back to what the Bay Area and Northern California used to do back in the 60s and 70s and 80s when it was the center for high-tech manufacturing in America.

The innovation engine that we have in Northern California is really special.

And the fact that we are throttling it by not building up housing is just crazy.

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 was the California dream.

California was this.

And then after 26 years, I finally got here in 2013.

And what I found was this.

It was homelessness.