SF News 'California Forever' Billionaire Group Now Talking About Creating Shipbuilding Yard in the Delta Ever since shelving their plans to create a new city out of whole cloth in eastern Solano County because the political winds against it were too strong, the group still known as California Forever is apparently looking into turning some waterfront property on the Delta into a shipbuilding facility.
Business & Tech No Surprise Here: Bay Area Has Highest Concentration of Million-Dollar Jobs of Any US Metro Area The good news is that the Bay Area has the highest concentration of high-earning people of any United States metropolitan region. The bad news is that this is partly the case because rich people have priced so many lower-income people out of the city proper.
SF News Billionaire-Backed Group, California Forever, Is Withdrawing Their Ballot Measure After Damning Solano County Report Heh. Four months ahead of the November election, and following a damning report by Solano County staff, California Forever is pulling their ballot initiative to rezone an eastern swath of the county so they can build their utopian "city of yesterday."
SF News Mystery Group Behind Solano County Land-Grab Revealed to Be Silicon Valley VC Types, Plus Steve Jobs's Widow It didn't take the New York Times very long to get to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Solano County officials for several years, namely the identity of the people behind a massive buy-up of farmland totaling over $800 million.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Poll’ Stock Sale Proven a Sham, as He’s Actually Buying Up Shares Like Mad The latest ‘Elon con’ involves a Twitter stunt where his followers supposedly made the decision for him to sell his Tesla shares. But Musk is actually on a buying spree, buying shares for “well below 1% of Tesla's current share price.”
SF News Local Billionaire Donates $5 Million to Flood Relief Effort In San Jose Billionaire donates $5M to aid San Jose flood victims https://t.co/CQFZNXkuYD pic.twitter.com/NTkb8bYDtj— SFGate (@SFGate) March 2, 2017 Though the South Bay is not short on billionaires who could
SF News Larry Ellison Will Either Save Or Destroy That Hawaiian Island He Bought, It's Still Unclear Just last week we were surmising that maybe the huge project of remaking an entire Hawaiian island in his own image was a precipitating factor in Larry Ellison's decision to step down from
SF News Russian Billionaire's Yacht Reappears In S.F. Bay Does anyone remember the last time Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko paid a visit to S.F. in his $323 million Philippe Starck-designed megayacht? It was in 2010, and now, four years later, the
SF News Motorcade Alert: Obama Coming To Town Again Tonight President Obama is landing at SFO early this evening and heading straight to Pacific Heights for hob-nobbing with liberal-leaning billionaires. First off is a cocktail party at the home of environmentalist and former
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Falls Off Billionaire Top Ten List As Facebook's share price took another tumble last week, Mark Zuckerberg got knocked off a list of the world's ten richest techie billionaires. He temporarily lost $423 million of his personal, on-paper fortune
SF News $3 Million Tax Cut for Poor Larry Ellison Here at SFist, we don't like to name call -- mostly. But sometimes there are certain stories that we read with (a lot of) choice swear words on our tongue. So pardon us
SF News Forbes Big Bounty of Bay Area Billioniares Forbes annual list of billionaires around the world came out today. Jealous? And for the first time in 14 years Warren Buffett (at $62 billion) snatched the number one spot from Bill Gates
