{"id":63563,"date":"2026-02-11T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/billionaire-techies-back-matt-mahans-run-for-ca-governor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:30:05","slug":"billionaire-techies-back-matt-mahans-run-for-ca-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/billionaire-techies-back-matt-mahans-run-for-ca-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire techies back Matt Mahan\u2019s run for CA governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaires and tech moguls are spending mountains of cash to catapult\u00a0San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to the front of the race for California governor. Recent campaign finance reports show Mahan has raised more than $2 million, though he has touted raising a total of $7 million so far on social media. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and YCombinator CEO Garry Tan are among the Silicon Valley elite who maxed out their legally-allowed contributions \u2014 $78,400 each \u2014 into Mahan\u2019s governor campaign in January. David Baszucki, the billionaire CEO of the gaming platform Roblox, and his wife Jan&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/billionaire-techies-back-matt-mahans-california-governor-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaires and tech moguls are spending mountains of cash to catapult\u00a0San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to the front of the race for California governor. Recent campaign finance reports show Mahan has raised more than $2 million, though he has touted raising a total of $7 million so far on social media. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}