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San Jos\u00e9 Mayor Matt Mahan\u2019s run for California governor has been defined from the start by his donor list.<\/p>\n

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Mahan entered the race late and with little statewide name recognition, but catapulted into contention thanks to massive funding from billionaire tech titans, venture capitalists, cryptocurrency investors and other Silicon Valley elites. In a state with more than 23 million voters and hugely expensive media markets, the money signaled Mahan would be a contender.<\/p>\n

It also spurred accusations from his more liberal Democratic competitors and powerful labor leaders that Mahan is beholden to Big Tech, including forces aligned with President Trump.<\/p>\n

California Labor Federation President Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher recently described Mahan as \u201cfunded by Trump\u2019s big tech billionaires,\u201d while fellow Democratic candidate Tom Steyer \u2014 a billionaire running against corporate interests \u2014 called him \u201cMAGA Matt Mahan.\u201d<\/p>\n

That framing has persisted, despite Mahan being a centrist Democrat who has publicly criticized Trump.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Mahan released a four-page \u201cPlan to Hold Big Tech Accountable and Ensure AI Works for All Californians.\u201d The proposal called for AI and data centers to pay for their power and water needs, fund workforce stability initiatives and ensure human oversight of AI tools in critical sectors such as healthcare. It also called for the state to use AI to become more efficient, to bar cellphones in schools and to require parental consent for kids 15 and under joining social media.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Times, Mahan, 43, said AI is \u201cone of the most significant trends in society\u201d and needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n

He also rejected the notion that he would do Big Tech\u2019s bidding, and the idea that his support from tech leaders is entirely or even largely premised on his plans for their industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spoken very little about tech with any of my donors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mahan said his fundraising has instead been \u201ccentered on how we get California on a better path in terms of building housing, improving the quality of our public schools, solving our biggest problems,\u201d which \u201cjust resonates with people in the tech industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

A \u2018digital native\u2019<\/h2>\n

Mahan, the son of a teacher and a mailman, grew up in the farming community of Watsonville but commuted to San Jos\u00e9 to attend high school at Bellarmine College Prep on scholarship as a low-income student. He went on to Harvard University, where he was student body president and classmates with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, spent a year in Bolivia building irrigation systems, and then taught for two years in Alum Rock as part of the Teach for America program.<\/p>\n

He then joined Causes, an early Facebook application that allowed nonprofits to build grassroots support online, and rose to become chief executive. In 2014, he co-founded Brigade, a nonpartisan platform where voters could advocate for issues, which was acquired in 2019. He won a San Jos\u00e9 City Council seat in 2020, and was elected mayor in 2022.<\/p>\n

An early mayoral profile described Mahan as painting a whiteboard behind his desk to \u201cwrite on the wall as I did in my tech days.\u201d Another noted he used ChatGPT to write speeches. A third recounted how he\u2019d used AI to make city buses run faster.<\/p>\n

Mahan said he learned as a startup leader and a classroom teacher that metrics matter \u2014 that \u201cwhen we take our precious tax dollars and invest them in public services, we should measure our performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he has always believed government should take the best tech has to offer while being vigilant about the risks it poses, which maybe comes naturally to him as a millennial who remembers \u201cthe world before the internet\u201d but is also something of a \u201cdigital native.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donors explain<\/h2>\n

Between Jan. 1 and April 18, Mahan\u2019s campaign raised nearly $13.5 million, according to state campaign finance filings. During the same period, an independent expenditure backing Mahan called Back to Basics raised about $22.7 million, while another launched by the group Deliver for California raised nearly $3.3 million.<\/p>\n

The donors are a who\u2019s who of tech leaders, venture capitalists and other leaders in the gig, gaming, digital media and AI defense fields.<\/p>\n

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, gave the maximum individual contribution of $39,200 to Mahan directly, and $1 million to the Deliver for California committee. Reed Hastings, the co-founder and chairman of Netflix, gave the maximum contribution to Mahan, plus $1 million to the Back to Basics committee.<\/p>\n

Some donors, such as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who gave the maximum to Mahan, are well-known supporters of progressive causes. Others, such as Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and crypto founder David Marcus, who maxed out to Mahan, are also Trump backers.<\/p>\n

Brin, a friend of Gov. Gavin Newsom since the Democrat was mayor of San Francisco, has been moving rightward recently. He has donated to the Republican National Committee and in March was appointed to the White House tech advisory council. He\u2019s also a major donor to the nonprofit opposing the ballot measure for a new tax on California billionaires \u2014 which Mahan also is against.<\/p>\n

Brin, Lonsdale and Marcus did not respond to a request for comment. Hastings and Hoffman declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Several other tech donors did speak with The Times \u2014 and universally described their support for Mahan as less to do with his tech policies, and more to do with issues important to all Californians.<\/p>\n

Jamie Siminoff, who sold his home security startup Ring to Amazon for $1 billion and gave the maximum donation to Mahan, said he thinks L.A., where he lives, is the \u201cgreatest city in the world\u201d and California is the \u201cbest state in the world.\u201d But he sees Mahan as someone who could make improvements by bringing the state toward the political middle on public safety, housing and homelessness.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just like a nice, pragmatic, sort of centrist person, from what I can see, [who] wants to make California better, and I\u2019m 100% behind that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siminoff said it doesn\u2019t hurt that Mahan speaks the same language as many tech leaders, who are mostly just \u201cpragmatic inventors and entrepreneurs\u201d who want California\u2019s leader to be \u201cprincipled in thinking about fixing things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruchi Sanghvi, the first female engineer at Facebook and a former Dropbox executive who state records show donated $25,000 to Mahan, said she has known Mahan since he was leading Causes but fell out of touch. When he entered the governor\u2019s race, and she \u201cgot all these emails from people that I respect\u201d saying they were supporting him, she asked for a meeting.<\/p>\n

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At that meeting, she said, Mahan \u201creally dug in on some of the core issues that I care about,\u201d including housing, homelessness and education.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco resident, political independent and mother of three said the idea that tech leaders are backing Mahan because they believe he will scratch their back in business is wrong. Referring to his tech plan\u2019s restrictions on social media for youth, she said, \u201cI don\u2019t think of that as scratching my back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, \u201cwhat really resonates with me and my peers is that, yes, he is pragmatic,\u201d Sanghvi said. \u201cHe cares about measurable outcomes, which I think is very critical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc Merrill, co-founder, co-chairman and chief product officer of L.A.-based video game developer and e-sports company Riot Games, gave the maximum to Mahan, as did his wife, Ashley, founder of the sleepwear brand Lunya. In a statement to The Times, Merrill said he and his wife are lifelong Californians who love the state and support Mahan because of his record \u201caddressing California\u2019s most pressing challenges with practical, results-oriented solutions\u201d in San Jos\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Merrill said Mahan brought down violent crime, reduced homelessness with \u201cdata-driven programs that address root causes rather than just managing the problem,\u201d and \u201cfostered an environment where businesses are choosing to invest and grow in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tech vs. labor?<\/h2>\n

Gonzalez Fletcher said tech leaders have long \u201cbeen very clear about their desire to support candidates who won\u2019t regulate AI, to support candidates who will go after organized labor\u201d \u2014 and their support for Mahan is no different.<\/p>\n

She pointed as an example to a March event attended by Mahan and hosted by one of his most vocal backers: Garry Tan, a venture capitalist and chief executive of Y Combinator, a startup incubator in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

At the event \u2014 which was part of Tan\u2019s launch of a new statewide group called Garry\u2019s List, which he has described as a \u201cRotary Club for radical centrism\u201d \u2014 Chris Larsen, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency network Ripple, railed against the influence of unions in California politics and the \u201cweak\u201d response from business leaders, according to video.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to fight on par with the unions when they\u2019re proposing stupid, job-killing ideas like the San Francisco CEO tax,\u201d Larsen said. He noted that several other candidates for governor, including former Orange County Rep. Katie Porter, whom he\u2019d donated to, had backed the measure to tax companies that pay their chief executive 100 times more than their average employee.<\/p>\n

Neither Tan nor Larsen responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez Fletcher, a former state legislator, said the argument that California Democrats have caused the state\u2019s biggest problems by bowing to unions is false, and that what is more true is that \u201cruling class\u201d Democrats such as Newsom \u201cacquiesce to business interests\u201d driving the state\u2019s affordability and homelessness crises.<\/p>\n

She said employers get away with underpaying workers and big landlords are allowed to take advantage of renters. She said Airbnb, as a tech example, has gone unchecked despite causing \u201ca lot of the removal of housing stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said one reason she opposes Mahan is that he \u201csuffers from the same love affair with Big Tech\u201d as Newsom.<\/p>\n

Steyer \u2014 who has funded his own campaign to the tune of nearly $200 million \u2014 has repeatedly struck a similar note.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, his campaign wrote that \u201cMahan continues to fail working Californians by catering to tech billionaires and wealthy special interest groups.\u201d In February, it wrote that although Mahan had the support of \u201cpowerful special interests hellbent on keeping California a playground for the rich,\u201d Steyer had the backing of \u201cbus drivers, cafeteria workers, and custodians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Airbnb declined to comment but in the past has denied claims its platform substantially contributes to housing affordability issues, and has donated to housing initiatives. Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk, a Mahan donor, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Mahan said he values unions, in part because he grew up in a union household and benefited from the high-quality healthcare that provided, included when he was hospitalized for a collapsed lung as a teenager.<\/p>\n

He said he has also worked with tech employers who \u201care inventing the future, quite literally,\u201d and \u201ccreating a lot of jobs and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahan said the idea the two are inherently at odds is false, because \u201cbusiness needs labor, and labor needs business,\u201d and the real question is \u201chow to balance everyone\u2019s needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t have a strong enough regulatory environment, and business has too much power, workers can be exploited, the environment can be exploited and we can see really negative social outcomes,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the flip side is also true. If labor in our politics has too much power, you can also see distortions, you can see investment flow elsewhere, you can see less housing get built.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahan said that \u201cneither side has a monopoly on the truth,\u201d and that government has to \u201cbring people together and strike the right balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also defended Airbnb, which in San Jos\u00e9 pays taxes just like hotels, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t see Airbnb as an antagonistic thing. We don\u2019t let them take over the market, we regulate them, we charge them, and we use their tax revenue to provide services to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the state\u2019s housing crisis is due to over-regulation slowing new building to the point where it cannot keep up with job growth \u2014 which he called \u201cfundamentally unsustainable and unfair\u201d to low-income folks pushed out of job centers as a result.<\/p>\n

The answer is building more homes, more quickly, he said, including by reducing building fees and streamlining permitting processes \u2014 which he said he has done in San Jos\u00e9 and would replicate statewide as governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am, first and foremost, focused on making government deliver results that make a real difference in people\u2019s lives,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s my North Star.\u201d<\/p>\n

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