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– Ben Horowitz, a16z co-founder, warns on TBPN that California’s proposed 2026 Billionaire Tax Act\u2014a one-time 5% levy on net worth over $1 billion\u2014could drive out tech talent by taxing unrealized gains, likening it to a strategy to erode Silicon Valley’s network effects.<\/div>\n
– Norway’s 37.8% exit tax on unrealized capital gains above 3 million crowns has prompted a tech exodus, with founders like Fredrik Haga citing inability to liquidate private company stakes, leading to petitions and a diminished startup ecosystem as reported in Forbes and Reuters analyses.<\/div>\n
– The post has sparked replies urging relocation to low-tax states like Texas and Florida, amid data showing California’s top 1% already contribute 40% of state income taxes, highlighting tensions between revenue needs and innovation retention. <\/div>\n

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a16z’s \u2066\u202a@bhorowitz\u202c\u2069<\/a> says the California wealth tax is the “best strategy” to dismantle Silicon Valley that he’s ever seen.<\/p>\n

“It’s been so hard to break the Silicon Valley network effect, but this is the best strategy I’ve seen.”<\/p>\n

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Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES’ Game #7
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Steve Jobs Texted me on 650-283-8008<\/span> in the same way Palo Alto Steve Jobs called Bill Hewlett in Palo Alto <\/span><\/div>\n

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9:59<\/span><\/span> video sums up 14 chapters of a book coming out 11-11-2019 “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School”
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Fashion Week’s front row
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What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week
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My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve 
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CEO of Duck9
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CNN Video Channel: ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Read my last 10 X posts at www.X.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents
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52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering
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– Ben Horowitz, a16z co-founder, warns on TBPN that California’s proposed 2026 Billionaire Tax Act\u2014a one-time 5% levy on net worth over $1 billion\u2014could drive out tech talent by taxing unrealized gains, likening it to a strategy to erode Silicon Valley’s network effects. – Norway’s 37.8% exit tax on unrealized capital gains above 3 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}