The Billionaires
Money, power and influence: the Inquirer’s coverage of San Francisco’s resident billionaires — their companies, political giving, philanthropy, civic roles and public lives.
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The AI super PAC Greg Brockman helped launch has taken in no new donations since February, filings show
Leading the Future, which received $25 million from the OpenAI president and his wife, reported no contributions for the second and third quarters and is heading into Election Day with about $23.8 million unspent, according to…
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot design museum on the former Birkenstock campus while saying little about how much of its money comes from…
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The Baszuckis’ $20 million bet on metabolic psychiatry
The philanthropy of Roblox founder David Baszucki and author Jan Ellison Baszucki is paying for a new McLean Hospital center built around a treatment the couple credits with their son’s recovery.
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Max Levchin’s Affirm becomes Sam’s Club’s exclusive pay-over-time provider
The San Francisco lender, founded and run by Max Levchin, returns to the Walmart family of stores 19 months after losing Walmart’s own business to Klarna.
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Chris Larsen has put $2.1 million into San Francisco’s November ballot
Ethics Commission filings show the Ripple co-founder bankrolling Mayor Daniel Lurie’s charter overhaul and a District 10 candidate, while his company backs a Muni parcel tax.
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Inside Michael Moritz’s $150 million contest to remake San Francisco
Applications for Boundless San Francisco closed this month, and the Crankstart competition now moves into a peer review that will narrow the field to as many as seven finalists next year.
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Stripe’s Patrick Collison puts $33 million into the fight over Prop. 40
State filings show the Stripe chief executive has given about $33.2 million to the main committee opposing California’s billionaire tax, making him its fourth-largest donor with a week left before Election Day.
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At 92, Gordon Getty remains a pillar of San Francisco music, as patron and as composer
The oil heir turned composer has spent four decades underwriting the city’s opera, orchestras and choruses, and this year the institutions he funds turned the spotlight back on his own work.
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Harvey’s founders bet the next phase of legal AI on law firms’ own data
Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, the San Francisco roommates behind the $15.5 billion legal AI firm, are wiring Harvey into lawyers’ data.
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Jack Dorsey’s Sea Cliff renovation, now in its 14th year, gets a fresh set of city permits
City records show the Block co-founder filed this summer to restart and finish earlier work on his Sea Cliff homes, as building fills the enclave.