{"id":15636,"date":"2026-01-18T05:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:59:51","slug":"california-tech-collapse-google-founder-flees-as-state-seizes-voting-power-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/california-tech-collapse-google-founder-flees-as-state-seizes-voting-power-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA TECH COLLAPSE: Google Founder Flees as State Seizes &#8220;Voting Power&#8221; &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CALIFORNIA TECH COLLAPSE: Google Founder Flees as State Seizes &quot;Voting Power&quot;\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuJ-Vdt3cXM?start=602&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-info-text\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Jan 17, 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"expanded\" class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">BREAKING: The money hasn&#8217;t just left; it was pushed out. It\u2019s not just about &#8220;High Taxes.&#8221; California has quietly activated a legislative &#8220;Kill Switch&#8221; for startups known as the Class B Share Valuation clause. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">This technicality forces founders like Larry Page (Google) and Andy Fang (DoorDash) to pay taxes on &#8220;Voting Power&#8221; as if it were liquid cash\u2014a mathematical impossibility. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The result? To pay the bill, they would have to sell their companies. So they did the only logical thing: They fled the state. Governor Newsom is now facing a massive budget deficit as the top 1% of taxpayers\u2014who pay 50% of the state&#8217;s bills\u2014move their assets to Florida and Texas. I\u2019m Dana Sterling, and this is Maddow News. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 17, 2026 BREAKING: The money hasn&#8217;t just left; it was pushed out. It\u2019s not just about &#8220;High Taxes.&#8221; California has quietly activated a legislative &#8220;Kill Switch&#8221; for startups known as the Class B Share Valuation clause. This technicality forces founders like Larry Page (Google) and Andy Fang (DoorDash) to pay taxes on &#8220;Voting Power&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/california-tech-collapse-google-founder-flees-as-state-seizes-voting-power-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CALIFORNIA TECH COLLAPSE: Google Founder Flees as State Seizes &#8220;Voting Power&#8221; &#8211; YouTube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15637,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions\/15637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}