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Jan Sramek is the Founder & CEO of California Forever, a company building the next great American city, and the first major new city built in America since 1960s. Between 2016 and 2023, Jan was the founder and sole employee of the company who raised over a billion dollars and acquired over 68,000 acres (~106 square miles) in Solano County, an hour north of Silicon Valley.
Today, California Forever is building a new city focused on manufacturing, which includes the proposed Solano Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding complex in America, and the Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, both surrounded by amazing walkable neighborhoods.
Earlier in his career, Jan read Mathematics and Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics, and worked as a trader at Goldman Sachs. Born in Central Europe on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jan believes in Pax Americana, and in California that builds like it once did.
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