California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City

Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, presents his vision for building a new city in Solano County, California. He outlines the project's aim to address California's housing and infrastructure deficits, drawing on his personal experience of the "California dream" versus the reality he found. Sramek details plans for the "Solano Foundry," an advanced manufacturing park focused on robotics and AI, and a new deepwater shipyard on the West Coast to address national security concerns and compete with global shipbuilding capabilities. He emphasizes the need for a walkable city for up to 400,000 people, inspired by traditional American neighborhoods, to support these industrial developments. The project, backed by over a billion dollars and encompassing 70,000 acres, is positioned as a symbol of American optimism, manufacturing resurgence, and abundance.