Esmeralda
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Esmeralda
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#2How is Esmeralda funded?
Esmeralda Land Company is backed by patient, values-aligned investors
OK, who are they?
Edit: Did some more digging, found this: https://www.healdsburgtribune.com/edge-esmeralda-my-experien...
"The most well-attended talks were led by top researchers and CEOs from sectors like cryptocurrency, AI (artificial intelligence) and neuroscience."
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#3Cool project! When is the next hike of the property?
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#4How is Esmeralda funded? Esmeralda Land Company is backed by patient, values-aligned investors OK, who are they? Edit: Did some more digging, found this: https://www.healdsburgtribune.com/edge-esmeralda-my-experien... "The most well-attended talks were led by top researchers and CEOs from sectors like cryptocurrency, AI (artificial intelligence) and neuroscience." Oh no.
I could smell it from across the Atlantic
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#5This is interesting to me. I'm developing a similar idea across the Atlantic. If the organizers are on here, do reach out.
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#6I'm a big proponent of livable spaces. I've spent the last 18 years in Davis CA, which has a lot of walkable, bikeable path, and is human friendly. But let's be serious. In its form, its not affordable, and this project strikes me the same way...at least in terms of their marketing.
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#7How is Esmeralda funded? Esmeralda Land Company is backed by patient, values-aligned investors OK, who are they? Edit: Did some more digging, found this: https://www.healdsburgtribune.com/edge-esmeralda-my-experien... "The most well-attended talks were led by top researchers and CEOs from sectors like cryptocurrency, AI (artificial intelligence) and neuroscience." Oh no.
I could smell it from across the Atlantic
What? The unwashed dirty hippie smell or the crypto investor smell?
Wait .. can these two be combined?
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#8Poor people of Chautauqua, now they will be overrun by people’s seeking a new home.
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#9How is Esmeralda funded? Esmeralda Land Company is backed by patient, values-aligned investors OK, who are they? Edit: Did some more digging, found this: https://www.healdsburgtribune.com/edge-esmeralda-my-experien... "The most well-attended talks were led by top researchers and CEOs from sectors like cryptocurrency, AI (artificial intelligence) and neuroscience." Oh no.
Yeah, they don't say it out loud on the website, but the project has strong crypto roots and connections. Only one or two steps removed you have associations to: "Join Edge City" (pop-up city organizers that AFAIK directly work with Esmeralda), "Zuzalu" (pop-up city project by Vitalik Buterin), "Praxis" ("network state" project; essentially the same thing on a nation level) and a whole host of ex-crypto executives and VCs backing these things.
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I'm wondering who would actually be interested in this? It seems so undercooked and full of contradictions.
What is the economic perspective for it? I doubt the idea is that people will commute into SF, as that would clash with the car-less vision. I guess service workers for the city will likely live outside of it, which surely won't create an unharmonic class system. Will all the residents be remote tech workers? Realistically it seems like it would mostly be affordable to really rich people that would only spend part of the time in the city, torpedoing any community from forming.
The size is also half of a Disneyland so really quite small, and from what it reads on the website they effectively are executing on an already zoned spa development on the property?
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#10I recall healdsburg has a bunch of michelin star restaurants. wonder if this meshes with that.