Matt Bevan
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Podcast Appearances
His plan is to get this patch and build an entirely new city from it.
Now, Jan made a lot of money as a Goldman Sachs investor, but he is not doing this alone.
He builds this team of billionaires, Silicon Valley billionaires, that are all...
love this idea of building this new city in the middle of nowhere.
So you've got Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn.
You've got Pat Collison, CEO of Stripe.
You've got Lauren Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, the founder of GitHub, and a tonne more billionaire venture capitalists and capital firms all joined together for California forever.
What an interesting mixture of people because I was like, oh...
The LinkedIn guy.
The Stripe guy.
I was really worried where we were going.
But no, look, I mean, GitHub's a perfectly fine company.
Okay, go ahead.
But you're right that it's a motley crew of billionaires with all kinds of different priorities and different interests in this project.
And that reflects itself in the actual plan for the city.
This California Forever City, if you go onto the websites, there are three main sections.
There's Solano Living, Solano Foundry, and Solano Shipyard.
Those are the three pillars.