{"id":217880,"date":"2026-03-13T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217880\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:48:18","slug":"silicon-valley-elite-plot-500-million-endowment-to-influence-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217880\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Elite Plot $500 Million Endowment to Influence California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home. Now, a proposed nine-figure fund aims to give wealthy Californians an unprecedented tool to reshape the state\u2019s politics in their favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The fund is being pitched to some of the state\u2019s richest residents as an endowment that would operate in California for decades to come, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Organizers are seeking $100 million this year, with hopes of reaching at least $500 million and up to $1 billion in the coming years, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the conversations are private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home. Now, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9329,7,9,8,29332,99898,6974,99899,13,1301,8170,1694,9560],"class_list":["post-217880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-billionaires","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-garry-tan","tag-joe-lonsdale","tag-labor-unions","tag-maria-davidson","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-startups","tag-taxes","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217880","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=217880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}