Mayor San Francisco Daniel Lurie wants to revive his city to the times of glory. And he is convinced of technology leaders – who often throw their very own ideals – they can help him deliver.
“I am the mayor who answers the phone and called to the Directors,” Lurie said during the Strictlyvc Techcrunch event on Thursday evening. “I call entrepreneurs and say:” How can we stop you here? “Or” How can we get you back? “
He said that the first step to get these people is to deal with a violent drug crisis and homelessness, which pushed many business leaders from the city. Lurie spent most of his first 100 days in the office, walking the most restless districts of the city. This week, A protracted -lasting program withdrew in which San Francisco distributed free pipes, foil and straws, which were used to eat drugs reminiscent of fentanyl.
Lurie’s “common sense policy”, as he called them during the Mayor of 2024, is largely supported by technology leaders. When Ryan Petersen, the general director of Flexport, left the stage in Strictlyvc, while the mayor of San Francisco went on, shouted to Lurie:
“Thanks for some cleaning the city.”
In addition to the public security initiative, Lurie emphasized the have to facilitate “building” in San Francisco – referring to building houses and creating corporations.
The city has recently presented a recent initiative, SFwhich would scale back the amount of bureaucracy, through which startups must view to operate in San Francisco.
On Thursday, the mayor also introduced New zone proposal This would allow higher buildings-thus more residents-in districts, which traditionally allow only lower-family houses. If the sentence, this may occasionally be the first resonance of San Francisco from 1970.
“We want our entrepreneurs to start companies and then stop here,” said Lurie. “This means to improve the permit, making it easier to set up a restaurant, bar or startup.”
“We need more people that people meet and are … practical. We lost it here in San Francisco,” Lurie said. “I believe that the business community that has remained here, which has not left, understands our values and we attract companies in the coming years.”
Building the AI Center
As part of this effort, Lurie said that he wanted “competitive on the tax front”, suggesting that he was able to grant tax breaks to corporations in the city. The mayor of San Francisco said that he had already worked with leading AI in the city to build more offices and organize more conferences in the city.
For example, Lurie said he convinced Databicks to arrange the AI conference in San Francisco until 2030, as an alternative of moving to Las Vegas, as the company originally planned. Last month, the mayor also participated in the digestion of the ribbon in the recent Openai office.
While these AI corporations can get tax reductions, the mayor wants them to speculate in San Francisco in other ways. In particular, he wants the general director of Opeli, Altman himself, “loudly” his investments in artistic scenes and cultures in San Francisco, which, he claims, the company is already doing quietly.
But Lurie does not only want dollars of the technology industry – he is also looking for their ideas. The city has recently announced a partnership for San Francisco, a consortium of business leaders, including the owner of Atlantic and widow Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, the famous designer Apple Jons Ive and Altman – to assist corporations a clear channel to refer to the town hall.
Robotaxia in SF
But some of the San Franciscans are afraid that the technology industry is pushing other communities. This tension has recently developed when Waymo tried to acquire permission to mapping the SFO airport, enabling his robotaxis to take riders to the airport airport.
Waymo successfully obtained permission to map SFO, but got here with a strict throw -out to make sure that Waymo does not transfer industrial goods to the airport airport. Thanks to the international team of Teamsters, the drivers of suppliers have great power at the Town Hall in San Francisco.
Lurie said he had developed contracts with trade unions to perform permission to SFO Waymo, but explained that “Waymo is not going anywhere”.
The mayor said he was convinced that autonomous vehicles “where the future goes” and that he talked to other corporations about greater presence in the city. Lurie also didn’t rule out the construction of the city’s infrastructure to accommodate more autonomous vehicles.
While a significant part of the innovation of the technology industry took place historically in the Silicon Valley, about 40 miles south of the city, Boom AI seems strongly concentrated in San Francisco. Lurie says that this city gave the city to momentum to essentially restore innovations.
“When we finish, everyone will be like:” I have to be in San Francisco. Otherwise I miss. ” This is where we go there – said Lurie.