Adam Miller, a former tech executive and co-founder of a homeless nonprofit, Thursday announced his bid for mayor of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Miller enters the race as an \u201coutsider to elective office\u201d after spending two decades building organizations across business, technology and the nonprofit sector, according to his campaign team. He filed his declaration to run Wednesday with the City Clerk\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a relatively unique background, having been both a business leader and a nonprofit leader, and working across multiple sectors,\u201d Miller told City News Service in a telephone interview Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city\u2019s been on a decline, and it\u2019s hard to watch,\u201d Miller said, adding the city has yet to recover from several challenges including the January 2025 wildfires.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have challenges across the board around affordability and rent, around economic opportunity and of course, around homelessness. There is so much more we can be doing,\u201d Miller told CNS.<\/p>\n
The mayoral candidate expressed that when he sees a significant problem, where he believes he can have an impact, he can\u2019t stop thinking about it until he takes action.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe I can have a major positive impact on the city of L.A. and help all Angelenos to live better. That\u2019s why I\u2019m running,\u201d Miller told CNS.<\/p>\n
Miller founded and led Cornerstone On Demand, a workforce education company he took public as CEO. The company was sold in 2021 for $5.2 billion to a private equity firm.<\/p>\n
Miller helped launch initiatives to address workforce development, homelessness prevention and community resilience.<\/p>\n
He went on to fund Better Angels in 2022 with the idea to address homelessness via five pillars, or key areas \u2014 prevention, services, shelter, housing and technology.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s campaign is focused on homelessness and housing, public safety, economic mobility and improving accountability and effectiveness at City Hall.<\/p>\n
Douglas Herman, a spokesman for Bass\u2019 campaign, in a statement described Miller as someone who made a \u201cfortune peddling software to eliminate jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last thing Los Angeles needs now is another self-funder who doesn\u2019t understand the crisis of affordability in our city,\u201d Herman said in his statement.<\/p>\n
Herman touted Mayor Karen Bass\u2019 efforts to address housing affordability, reduce street homelessness and improvements in public safety.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Miller defended himself from Herman\u2019s accusations, saying that his \u201ccompany\u2019s software was used for training and helping employees build their skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
He told the Times that he would provide a loan to his campaign to start, and begin raising money like any other candidate.<\/p>\n
Miller told CNS that it is true that he\u2019s been very successful across many different ventures, across many different sectors and industries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s a weakness. I think that\u2019s a strength, as we just discussed, we need more effective management and leadership of this city, and operational experience and success is an asset \u2014 not a liability,\u201d Miller told CNS.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s announcement comes on the same day that former Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner, whose 22-year-old daughter died unexpectedly last month, ended his bid to become mayor of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Beutner cited his family\u2019s mourning over the death of Emily Beutner as the reason for ending his campaign.<\/p>\n
Billionaire developer Rick Caruso, who lost the 2022 election to Bass, recently announced he would not run for the office again. But he said Wednesday he was reconsidering that decision in light of a Los Angeles Times report this week that Bass may have directed the watering-down of a Palisades Fire after-action report critical of the fire department\u2019s response to the blaze. Bass has vehemently denied the allegation.<\/p>\n
Bass also faces challengers Spencer Pratt, a reality television personality and Palisades Fire survivor; and Rae Huang, a community organizer, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Miller, a former tech executive and co-founder of a homeless nonprofit, Thursday announced his bid for mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[79977,67185,79978,15726,48,52,51,47,50,49,4415,24317,2211,995],"class_list":["post-165776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-adam","tag-enters","tag-exec","tag-former","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mayor","tag-miller","tag-race","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}