Matt Mahan

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2,299 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 22 May

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

There has been fraud very well documented in California and other areas during the last five years or so, roughly during the pandemic.

Unemployment claims in California that were fraudulent totaled over $30 billion.

That is well documented.

There's emerging research right now that shows that there are

hundreds if not thousands of hospice providers who may or may not exist.

I mean, we're just getting this information now.

This is very real time investigative journalism.

So there's fraud.

I think by an order of magnitude, there's even something

bigger here, which is waste and inefficiency, is a system where you just keep incrementally growing headcount, growing the size of programs, growing the grants that we give out to nonprofits, and

We're funding and managing around process, not outcomes.

And I've tried to approach it very differently in San Jose, and I think it's why without raising taxes, in fact, our revenue has actually slowed a bit the last couple of years just because the economy is cyclical, real estate is struggling, we're very dependent on local property taxes.

But without raising taxes, we have dramatically changed the outcomes we're getting.

We have led the state in reducing crime and become the safest big city in the country.

We've reduced unsheltered homelessness, many people living outside in tents and vehicles, by about a third in the last few years.

We've unblocked housing production.

We're seeing thousands of new homes under construction.

In all of those cases, we had to change existing process that was in the way, reduce fees, and cut funding for programs that weren't delivering so that we could fund other solutions that were more efficient.

Yeah, and I would just to be clear as governor veto even more of these bills because there's a total lack of accountability.

And I think too many of our legislators think that their measure of success is how many bills they can write, get to the governor and ultimately get signed.

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