Bay Area is the $154B Startup Ecosystem Golden Goose. Sacramento Wants to Kill It.
The numbers prove SF is the undisputed capital of innovation. So why are California politicians hellbent on driving it away?
California lawmakers killed two bipartisan lobbying transparency bills without a hearing, blocking public access to records that ten other states already publish openly — while the state's own nonpartisan analysts confirm a structural deficit of $20–30 billion per year, the result of spending growth that outpaced revenue by 10 points since the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Legislature is advancing AB 2624, a bill that could expose journalists investigating taxpayer-funded immigration nonprofits to $4,000-per-violation fines with no press exemption. From fiscal accountability to free speech, Sacramento's actions this session raise serious questions about who the Legislature is actually working for.
The numbers prove SF is the undisputed capital of innovation. So why are California politicians hellbent on driving it away?
The progressive politician who blocked 495 homes now wants to run California's insurance market into the ground.
Founders are already planning their escape routes. YC's strategy: leave after Series B, go distributed. "Suboptimal, but we know how to do this."
She wants to seize private property, calls homeownership 'white supremacy,' and ran crying when asked about her mom's $1.6M home.
San Jose's mayor is weighing a run—and his track record of actually fixing homelessness has founders begging him to go statewide.
The Governor touts a 9% drop in "unsheltered" homelessness. The actual numbers tell a very different story.
Half of California's billionaire wealth has fled the state—and the wealth tax isn't even on the ballot yet.
San Jose's mayor goes on national TV to warn Sacramento that their wealth tax scheme will backfire spectacularly.
The YIMBY ringleader is running for Congress on housing wins, tough-on-crime bills, and a decade of fighting for algebra.