A group of Silicon Valley investors that spent $800M on farmland in Northern California is planning to build a “city of yesterday,” though it remains unclear just what they have in mind.
Some of tech’s biggest names — including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Stripe co-founders and siblings Patrick and John Collison, and Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital — are among the deep-pocketed individuals behind Flannery Associates, a group that has amassed 5,200 acres northeast of San Francisco.