Thank you for visiting the "Fix California Challenge" page. Tim Draper is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and tinkerer. You may know his name as the man who tried unsuccessfully to break California up into six new States. Tim is launching a website called "Fix California Challenge" for government innovators to lay out their own ideas and entice a wealthy donor (or donors) to bankroll them.
This is an exciting idea and opportunity that I hope will enable the good people of California to float their ideas for California government reform and bring the power back to the People as the Founding Fathers intended. This process should allow the cream of the crop to float to the top to achieve the best of the needed reforms that our lunkheads in Sacramento would never consider passing.
This gives new meaning to the words "Government of the People, by the People, and for the People".
I've had several ideas for initiatives but never knew who or how to get help writing and funding. This may be the ticket...guess we'll see. I'm submitting my ideas. No better time to submit yours. Godspeed.
May God Bless.
This is an exciting idea and opportunity that I hope will enable the good people of California to float their ideas for California government reform and bring the power back to the People as the Founding Fathers intended. This process should allow the cream of the crop to float to the top to achieve the best of the needed reforms that our lunkheads in Sacramento would never consider passing.
This gives new meaning to the words "Government of the People, by the People, and for the People".
I've had several ideas for initiatives but never knew who or how to get help writing and funding. This may be the ticket...guess we'll see. I'm submitting my ideas. No better time to submit yours. Godspeed.
May God Bless.
By John Myers
Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015
Tim Draper is undaunted in his fixation with fixing California, even after his failed 2014 quest to carve California into six separate states.
“I am open to the idea that maybe there’s even something better,” said Draper.
Now, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and tinkerer is going at things a different way, launching a website for government innovators to lay out their own ideas and entice a wealthy donor (or donors) to bankroll them.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper is launching a new website to solicit ideas on how to improve California’s system of governance. (John Myers/KQED)
“We want to create real venture governance,” said Draper in an interview at KQED News’ Sacramento bureau on Tuesday.
Draper is unveiling his “Fix California Challenge” this week, an effort to essentially match good ideas with the money to make them reality. And he’s well aware of what that could cost; last year, Draper spent $4.9 million of his own money to try and put his “Six Californias” idea on the ballot — a proposal to carve the Golden State into six separate states, one that attracted a lot of national attention in the process.
(And by the way, Draper still thinks he collected enough signatures and that elections officials rejected some that were valid. But we digress.)
The website pretty much works like this: You submit an idea, be it a ballot initiative or a nonprofit to help government run better, and then you wait to see if a venture capitalist will come forward and fund it. Draper says that he has a few wealthy backers ready to participate, and that one of those potential funders may be him.
“It could be a number of different things,” he said, about what kinds of government reform ideas could be chosen.
Draper plans to take it even further: He is mulling a kind of contest, inspired by the reality entrepreneur TV show “Shark Tank,” where Californians with a ballot initiative idea would vie for the chance to have that proposal be funded by … well, him.
The collapse of his own effort in California’s direct democracy system hasn’t deterred the wealthy player in the tech world. In fact, he almost likens his attempt to go around the traditional system to the drive that led reformers in the early 20th century to create the initiative process itself.
“The government looks like a monopoly to me,” said Draper.
“I am open to the idea that maybe there’s even something better,” said Draper.
Now, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and tinkerer is going at things a different way, launching a website for government innovators to lay out their own ideas and entice a wealthy donor (or donors) to bankroll them.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper is launching a new website to solicit ideas on how to improve California’s system of governance. (John Myers/KQED)
“We want to create real venture governance,” said Draper in an interview at KQED News’ Sacramento bureau on Tuesday.
Draper is unveiling his “Fix California Challenge” this week, an effort to essentially match good ideas with the money to make them reality. And he’s well aware of what that could cost; last year, Draper spent $4.9 million of his own money to try and put his “Six Californias” idea on the ballot — a proposal to carve the Golden State into six separate states, one that attracted a lot of national attention in the process.
(And by the way, Draper still thinks he collected enough signatures and that elections officials rejected some that were valid. But we digress.)
The website pretty much works like this: You submit an idea, be it a ballot initiative or a nonprofit to help government run better, and then you wait to see if a venture capitalist will come forward and fund it. Draper says that he has a few wealthy backers ready to participate, and that one of those potential funders may be him.
“It could be a number of different things,” he said, about what kinds of government reform ideas could be chosen.
Draper plans to take it even further: He is mulling a kind of contest, inspired by the reality entrepreneur TV show “Shark Tank,” where Californians with a ballot initiative idea would vie for the chance to have that proposal be funded by … well, him.
The collapse of his own effort in California’s direct democracy system hasn’t deterred the wealthy player in the tech world. In fact, he almost likens his attempt to go around the traditional system to the drive that led reformers in the early 20th century to create the initiative process itself.
“The government looks like a monopoly to me,” said Draper.
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