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Tech Billionaires Behind Secretive Plan for New California Metropolis
The Daily Beast ^ | 8/26/23 | Tracy Connor

Posted on 08/26/2023 8:40:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Some of the biggest and richest names in the tech and finance worlds are reported to be investors in a secrecy-cloaked company that has been buying up large tracts of the San Francisco Bay Area, apparently in a quest to create an entirely new city.

Quoting three unnamed sources, The New York Times reported that backers of the firm called Flannery Associates include venture capitalists Michael Mortiz, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Cue co-founder Daniel Gross, and Laurene Powell Jobs, founder of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; criminalenterprise; flanneryassociates; newcity; realty; reidhoffman; sanfransicko; utopia
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I guess it will have an airport for their gas guzzling private jets and windmills all around.
1 posted on 08/26/2023 8:40:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
And you will be able to get any where in just 15 minutes.
2 posted on 08/26/2023 8:43:10 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: DallasBiff

Wasn’t this tried multiple times in the 1800s?


3 posted on 08/26/2023 8:43:36 AM PDT by Paladin2
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4 posted on 08/26/2023 8:47:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

George Floyd International. This is where all the reparations former slaves will be going to live when they get their 5 million and annual 250K salaries for 250 years. Gonna Be called Reparations City.


5 posted on 08/26/2023 8:47:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Say anything you like. Just don't say anything you don't like." - Old communist proverb.)
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To: Paladin2

Earthquake.


6 posted on 08/26/2023 8:47:46 AM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: Paladin2

They’re probably bothered by having to see all those pesky mentally ill, homeless people on the streets of the existing “public” cities and want to set up some kind of members only gated community where only the properly vetted can mix.


7 posted on 08/26/2023 8:47:54 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: DallasBiff

Well, let’s see, they’re destroying the city of S.F as we speak. What, whey want to do it again somewhere else?


8 posted on 08/26/2023 8:48:13 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DallasBiff

Good point. No one will give up their ICE vehicles and private jets, whatever else they think they’re doing to Save Da Erf.


9 posted on 08/26/2023 8:48:45 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Paladin2
Americas company towns then and now
10 posted on 08/26/2023 8:52:42 AM PDT by Yogafist
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I guess it will have an airport for their gas guzzling private jets and windmills all around.

It's weird how the illustrations of Ilium from Vonnegut's "Player Piano" have been memory holed from the internet.

11 posted on 08/26/2023 8:55:11 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: glorgau

I see a world like Judge Dredd and
Soilent Green.


12 posted on 08/26/2023 8:55:14 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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will they get MAGIC DEMOCRAT PERMITS that let them do what ever is needed to do???

or will it die in a sea of redtape like a regular person...


13 posted on 08/26/2023 8:55:55 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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will they get MAGIC DEMOCRAT PERMITS that let them do what ever is needed to do???

or will it die in a sea of redtape like a regular person...


14 posted on 08/26/2023 8:56:15 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: glorgau

Drive the real estate prices down with intentional bad policies.

Then bring in new law and order management.

Hell of a deal!


15 posted on 08/26/2023 8:58:30 AM PDT by jcon40 (Leftists are usually obnoxious Bullies)
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To: Paladin2

Well said. Yes it was. Even before that, at Roanoke, I think.
In the 1800’s, starting from New York, that’s where all the crazy stuff like Mormons and Seventh Day Adventist’s and Millerites, and whatever, came from. But I digress. I don’t care about that much, but, yeah, you are correct.


16 posted on 08/26/2023 8:59:34 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Chode

Big developers love regulations.
Perfect for teams of lawyers and facilitators.
Crushes the little guy who can’t afford it


17 posted on 08/26/2023 9:01:11 AM PDT by jcon40 (Leftists are usually obnoxious Bullies)
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To: bdfromlv

More like Demolition Man.


18 posted on 08/26/2023 9:02:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

How dare Mormons and SDAs try to rebuild a city back better. Who do they think they are?


19 posted on 08/26/2023 9:03:42 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I haven't slept for ten days because that would be too long.)
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To: DallasBiff

I say good, do it. Maybe it’ll clean up all the filth and restore things back to normal.


20 posted on 08/26/2023 9:03:52 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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