California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
4.2 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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(0:00) Introducing Jan Sramek
(0:51) How California Forever is building America's next great city
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| 0:00.0 | The dream, build a livable, affordable, eco-friendly community. |
| 0:06.0 | California Forever owns more than 100 square miles of land here in Solano County, |
| 0:11.0 | backed by Silicon Valley investors to build a new city. |
| 0:15.0 | We're going back to what the Bay Area in Northern California used to do, |
| 0:18.0 | back in the 60s and 70s and 80s when it was the center for high-tech |
| 0:21.3 | manufacturing in America. |
| 0:22.6 | This new city will be entirely self-funded and sustainable. |
| 0:26.3 | The innovation engine that we have in Northern California is really special. |
| 0:30.2 | And the fact that we are frotling it by non-building enough housing is just crazy. |
| 0:35.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome California Forever's Yon Sromic. |
| 0:46.1 | Morning. As you've just heard, I ran California Forever, which is building the next great American |
| 0:55.8 | city. |
| 0:57.1 | And we are building it right here in California. |
| 1:00.9 | And I know what all of you are already thinking, which is California, really? |
| 1:07.2 | Well, where are we today? |
| 1:10.5 | We are in California. The All-? We are in California. |
| 1:11.6 | The All-end Summit is in California. |
| 1:14.6 | And I think that's kind of the point, because despite all of its flaws and challenges, |
| 1:20.6 | California is irreplaceable. |
| 1:24.6 | Whether you like it or not, there is nowhere else in America that can play |
| 1:29.2 | the role that California plays in the United States right now. And so we have to fight for |
| 1:35.5 | fixing all of the things that are wrong with the state. |
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