News about Reid Hoffman

Wake up... Cori Bush, the Democratic 'Squad' congresswoman, now faces a cash crunch as a result of an election campaign that has hammered her in polls and faces a DoJ probe into her husband's recruitment as bodyguard

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 21, 2024
In a recent poll by GOP consultancy Remington Research ahead of the August 6 primary, Cori Bush (pictured left) 47, is behind rival Welsey Bell (pictured right). Bell, who has slammed Bush for his anti-Israel views in particular, is now beating her at the fundraising game as well. Bell, a resident of St. Louis County, spent $408,000 in his campaign coffers in the fourth quarter. Bush, on the other hand, started 2024 with just $215,000, and amid rumors that she has thousands of dollars in debt, she has only started 2024.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, January 26, 2024
Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to'lock up' for her outbursts during closing arguments, but she continued to support the former president. She spoke to reporters after the jury awarded Carroll the huge sum of money for defaming her in 2019 when he denied sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. As she stepped out of Manhattan Federal Court moments after the damages were read out in court, she told a reporter, "I'm not having any second thoughts representing President Trump." 'It's the proudest thing I could ever do,' she added. I have been on trial for months in this state, and we now know what you get in New York.'

What do they know?World's billionaires are building bunkers and assembling fortresses outside their mansions

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 21, 2024
The world's richest have invested hundreds of millions of dollars on underground tunnels, private islands, and (for the merely wealthy)'survival condos.' Some wealthy people in secluded nations such as New Zealand are paying for 'golden visas.' But here's how the world's rich are preparing for the worst and how the rest of us can get our 'doomsday prepping' done on a budget

Just 35 minutes from Kansas City, a Vacant plot of land with a massive end-of-the-world bunker sells for $2 million

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 19, 2024
A Missouri hideaway is providing a cost-friendly alternative to the world's end at a time when the new billionaire trend is kitting out doomsday bunkers. The underground shelter, which was originally constructed for $34 million, has gone on sale for just $2 million and comes with a number of features that will give the a sense of luxury to the apocalypse. Though the outside appears to be little more than a massive shed, the new owners will find a large 10,000-square-foot modern space with a gymnasium, recording studio, theater room, and glass blowing alley.

New details of a middle-class development in California that will feature 4K acres of parks and a 15K acre 'buffer zone,' with a nearby air force base - as voters will soon determine the fate of the proposed neighborhood

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 17, 2024
As backers prepare to ask local voters for permission to proceed with the construction, the tech billionaires behind a proposed 'utopian' California city have revealed new information, including park space, new jobs, and resident life. A number of billionaire investors, including Jan Sramek, Laurene Powell Jobs, and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, who filed a ballot initiative on Wednesday laying out their plans, are backing the proposed Solano County city. In recent months, local opposition to the proposals for a new 'old-fashioned,' walkable city that could hold up to 40,000 residents by 2040.

'This is very disrespectful', a rant at a town hall meeting over 'utopian city' proposals that are backed by Silicon Valley billionaires.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 30, 2023
Residents of Vallejo, California, a Solano County city, expressed their trepidation about a planned 'utopian city,' which is expected to be constructed on farmland in the immediate area. The project is being dubbed 'California Forever.' Its architects' proposal to turn 50,000 acres of Solano County farmland into a brand new city of about as many residents. According to the developers, the area will be as walkable as Paris and will result in the creation of tens of thousands of jobs.

At a council meeting against tech giants' proposal to create a 53,000-acre 'utopian' city, ferocious Californians erupted, but the Silicon Valley billionaires were dismissed as a "small, vocal minority."

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 24, 2023
Residents of Solano County packed into a meeting earlier this month to oppose a billionaire-backed group's attempts to build a 'walkable and green' city on rural property. Those in opposition argue that the initiative could jeopardize existing ecosystems and be referred to as a 'oligarch city.' Brian Brokaw, a spokesperson for the group, dismissed them as a "small but vocal minority."

Michael Rothenberg, the venture capitalist in San Francisco, was found guilty of $19 million in fraud and now faces up to 60 years in jail

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 20, 2023
Michael Brent Rothenberg, who was raised in a Jehovah's Witness family in Georgetown, Texas, established his own VC fund in 2012 based on the philosophy of throwing fun parties. After being investigated by the FBI, Rothenberg, 39, was found guilty of wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and making false representations to a bank this month. Following a seven-week jury trial, Rothenberg's VC schemes resulted in about $18.8 million in missing money.

Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, has resigned as president of ChatGPT as a result of the company's coup to fire CEO Sam Altman

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 18, 2023
Following a public discussion about the safety of advanced AI systems such as ChatGPT, OpenAI president Greg Brockman (main) resigned almost immediately after the company's board fired Altman (top right) on Friday. Ilya Sutskever (bottom right), the company's chief scientist who is also a board member, was the primary catalyst behind the dramatic takeover of Altman with the support of three independent board members. According to Brockman, Sutskever fired Altman in a video chat on Friday, and then told Brockman that he would be ousted as president, but that he should keep acting as president, referring to new interim CEO Mira Murati.

Billionaire Flannery group says it has now bought all the land it needs for utopian new 53,000 acre city in Northern California that will be 'walkable and green'

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 5, 2023
The October purchases, according to Flannery Associates, was the last stage of its sale before the 'California Dream' city's construction began. Flannery Associates LLC has invested more than $800 million in Solano County over the years, secretly buying vast swaths of land around Travis Air Force Base, a project dubbed 'California Forever.' According to county records, the investor group bought half a dozen more land parcels in October, totaling 814 acres, indicating that it now owns more than 53,000 acres in the area.

In stunning photographs, the 'old fashioned' California utopian city suggested by tech billionaires including Jan Sramek, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Reid Hoffman is shown as they plan to have 50,000 residents by 2040.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2023
California Forever have shared photos from their utopian settlement in Solano County, which they estimate could be home to 40,000 residents by 2040. Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek, the company's CEO, said he wants to'build a city of yesterday.' The 'walkable' city in harmony with nature and rich in renewable energies such as a solar farm is shown by artistic renderings. Parks, commercial buildings, al fresco dining areas, and planting one million trees are among the other projects.

Ranchers in the middle of a $800 million land grab in Silicon Valley.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 4, 2023
Farmers who live on the land rented by Silicon Valley titans in order to create a utopian city are concerned that the growth will destroy their livelihoods. On Friday, renderings for the California Forever project were unveiled, revealing proposals for a 50,000-acre idealistic city backed by tech billionaires and giants. As farmers and ranchers who live near the property purchased by 'Flannery Associates' protested the company's conduct, they immediately reacted angrily. They are so selfish, it's amazing,' a farmer who spoke with SF Chronicle said. 'They know what they are going to do but they don't even know anyone who lives here?' Forever, the landowner in Solano County, about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco, is now the largest landowner. The land was worth more than $800 million to the company.

Jan Sramek, the 'California Forever' founder, unveils first renderings for San Francisco's utopian city, claiming that it will have improved schools, safer streets, and less homelessness

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 1, 2023
The creative renderings of their exciting plans have been published by the tech billionaires behind a scheme to create a utopian new city in California's Bay Area. Following months of silence and rumors, the group rebranded as 'Flannery Associates,' and revealed the plans in a publicity blitz on Thursday night. Former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek's backers include Silicon Valley titans like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Andreessen Horowitz investor Marc Andreessen, and Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs.

As the company's clandestine plan to create a utopian city across the Bay comes to light, Flannery Associates backer Michael Moritz slammed San Francisco's fentanyl 'zombie zones.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 31, 2023
After snapping up more than 50,000 acres of farmland for more than $800 million, Flannery Associates is now the largest landowner in Solano County, which is about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco. The land around Travis Air Force Base, which had raised doubts that the buyers were linked to a foreign power with hostile intent, but the corporation was launched earlier this week as a cadre of Silicon Valley billionaires with aspirations of building a utopia. Michael Moritz, a billionaire venture capitalist who has been vocally critical of San Francisco, has slammed the ambitious venture as a city that "bans plastic straws but allows plastic needles."

Laurene Powell Jobs and Linkedin co-found Reid Hoffman, the mysterious owners of $1 billion worth of undeveloped property near the California military base, not a nefarious network of Chinese spies

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 28, 2023
Mystery buyers of $1b of undeveloped land near California military base revealed to be tech titans Laurene Powell Jobs and Linkedin co-found Reid Hoffman - and NOT nefarious network of Chinese spies

Michigan estate complete with 5,000 square foot DOOMSDAY BUNKER goes on the market for $6 million

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 4, 2023
In Michigan, a sprawling 323-acre facility with a 5,000-square-foot doomsday bunker has gone on auction for $6 million. The sprawling property, which has been buried deep in the woods, has been dubbed 'unprecedented' and is ideally suited for a'self-sustaining lifestyle.' According to its ad, the home's 'piece de resistance,' is its 30-foot-deep bunker, which connects to the main home by an underground tunnel. It is decked out with a soundproof pistol range, two kitchens, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and two concealed entrances and exits. Bunkers have become more popular among America's richest as the pandemic, climate change, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has left many people worried about the world's future.

During a surprise mental health summit appearance, Prince Harry discusses the "power of therapy."

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 20, 2022
At the annual Masters of Scale Summit, the Duke of Sussex (pictured with conference speaker Dominique Taylor, left), 38, promised to bring together the'most forward-thinking, fast-scaling business leaders in an environment designed to foster creativity.' Last night, the father-of-two appeared on a panel with BetterUp founder Alexi Robichaux (inset). Prince Harry has been working as the Chief Impact Officer for the $4.7 billion mental health start-up since March of last year. Both were joined by podcaster and entrepreneur Reid Hoffman (pictured right), who spoke to them about how the brand encourages their clients to have optimal mental health.

Inside the billionaires' doomsday bunkers: Five-year-old secrets about the food of subterranean palaces

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 23, 2022
He realized that these hoodie-wearing tech titans had no interest in the discussion because he had been so sheltered about the future. Rather, they grilled him endlessly about what they should do after The Event. It was their euphemism for the environmental degradation, mass protests, unstoppable malware, or a malicious computer hack that might take down one day. Oppidum, a Czech company, makes 'ultra-luxury bunkers' that can include art galleries built to the same height as bank vaults, which will be 'accessible to you and your invited guests but not to all others,' according to the company's website. The accommodation within Survival Condos (pictured) in Kansas in the 1960s was much more expensive than the one on Nagasaki, and two US government missile silos were built in Kansas in the 1960s to shield a nuclear warhead 100 times more effective than the one on Nagasaki. They have been converted into elaborate underground apartments that have been cut down and covered with walls up to 9ft high. Even with 'windows,' or wall-mounted screens on which images of the outside world can be projected, most of which will be visible, and all have bidets in case of a repeat of the toilet roll shortages discovered during the Covid pandemic.

Peter Thiel, a billionaire PayPal entrepreneur, has dropped his bid to build a $10 million home in New Zealand

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2022
On New Zealand's pristine South Island, Peter Thiel, who is worth an estimated $7.7 billion, wanted to build a sprawling mansion with a spa, meditation pod, and library near Lake Wanaka. However, environmental activists and locals told him that removing our beautiful lake habitat would'destroy our beautiful lake habitat'. Thiel was refused planning permission on Thursday by Queenstown-Lakes district council on the grounds that it would'be of a sufficiently large scale and effect that it would draw the eye and be incorrectly dominant.' Inspectors were apparently worried about the size of the house and landscaped surrounds, as well as the fact that it would be visible from many vantage points around the lake, which would be particularly surprising.