Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for a federal tax on billionaires after failing to stop a California wealth tax from reaching the November ballot, setting up a high-profile test of whether voters will back one of the nation’s most aggressive efforts to tax the rich.
Governor Gavin Newsom is mounting a last-ditch pressure campaign to stop a proposed California billionaire tax from ever reaching voters.
Attendees wear "Billionaire Tax Now" shirts during a campaign kickoff event for the California Billionaire Tax Act in Los Angeles. Photographer: Tim Rue/Bloomberg
San Francisco voters rejected a union-backed ballot measure to raise taxes on large corporations doing business in the city, a win for billionaires who argued that the levy would harm the city’s economic recovery.
Volunteers hold signs during a canvassing event in support of the Overpaid CEO Act in San Francisco, California, US, on Saturday, April 11 2026. In June, voters in San Francisco will decide whether to impose an eight-fold increase to a gross-receipts tax on any large company doing business in the city where the highest paid executive earns 100 times or more than their median employee.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is continuing to push deeper into California politics by donating to a group that opposes a proposed tax hike on businesses with highly-paid executives in San Francisco.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - NOVEMBER 04: Sergey Brin attends the 2019 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center on November 4, 2018 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is continuing to push deeper into California politics by donating to a group that opposes a proposed tax hike on businesses with highly-paid executives in San Francisco.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - NOVEMBER 04: Sergey Brin attends the 2019 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center on November 4, 2018 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)
Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Feldman, who literally grew up on the campus of Stanford University, was already involved in selling three companies and taking another public. But none of that compares with Thursday’s debut of his AI-chip manufacturer.
Andrew Feldman Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Feldman, who literally grew up on the campus of Stanford University, was already involved in selling three companies and taking another public. But none of that compares with Thursday’s debut of his AI-chip manufacturer.
Andrew Feldman Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
Political committees have already raised $4.7 billion for the November contests as ultra-wealthy donors look to shape the final two years of Donald Trump's presidency.
Clockwise from top left: Elon Musk, George Soros, Ben Horowitz, Diane Hendricks, Jeff Yass, Marc Andreessen, Miriam Adelson, Greg and Anna Brockman, and Paul Singer
Billionaire Nvidia Corp. director Mark Stevens and his wife Mary are gifting $200 million to the University of Southern California to advance AI research and education across the school.
Nvidia Corp. signage at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, US, on Monday, March 16, 2026. Nvidia Corp. executives will likely need to deliver a surprise at the chipmaker's annual AI conference that begins Monday to spark a rally in the moribund stock.
In a treehouse nestled in redwoods north of San Francisco, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood cold and hungry as Sergey Brin, the world’s fourth-richest man, and his wellness-influencer girlfriend told him they were leaving the state.
Sergey Brin and Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto Photographer: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
An early investment in SpaceX has positioned Alphabet Inc. for a 12-figure windfall, a new filing shows, underscoring the vast wealth likely to be created by the rocket company’s market debut.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Dec. 9, 2025.
California billionaires are stepping up their efforts to boost San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan in the race for state governor, rushing into the vacuum left by Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit amid allegations of sexual assault.
From left, Matt Mahan, Katie Porter and Tom Steyer
Uber Technologies Inc. is backing three different candidates in the race for governor of California, hedging its political bets on a state that’s a bellwether for policy and technology shifts.
Tumult in private-credit markets is turning into a buying opportunity, even as default rates are likely to rise in 2027 and 2028, according to Alisa Mall, the chief investment officer for Michael Dell’s family office.
Buildings in the Manhattan skyline in New York, U.S., on Thursday June 17, 2021. New York state's pandemic mandates were lifted last week, after 70% of the adult population has now been given at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home. Now, a proposed nine-figure fund aims to give wealthy Californians an unprecedented tool to reshape the state’s politics in their favor.
Silicon Valley Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
Sergey Brin and a group of fellow billionaires are bankrolling a series of competing California ballot initiatives that would nullify a proposed 5% levy on the state’s wealthiest residents.
Sergey Brin, president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google Inc., during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. US President Donald Trump said he would be imposing tariffs on semiconductor imports “very shortly” but spare goods from companies like Apple Inc. that have pledged to boost their US investments.
A group of billionaires, including Sergey Brin, is backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s campaign for California governor, joining a wave of Silicon Valley donors supporting the Democrat’s centrist run.
Matt Mahan Photographer: Eakin Howard/NWSL/Getty Images
Artificial intelligence tops the investment priority list for family offices globally, a survey from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s private bank shows, though allocations lag and remain concentrated in public equities.
A proposed tax on California’s wealthiest residents is drawing opposition from a growing group of top state Democrats, including a US representative for Silicon Valley and Katie Porter, the former congresswoman now running for governor.
Citizens Financial Group Inc. is seeking to expand its private banking business to more Northeast locations such as Philadelphia just two years after it got its start in the business.
A Citizens bank branch in New York, US, on Sunday, July 7, 2024. Citizens Financial Group Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 17. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg