WSJ News Exclusive | The Secret Foreign Roots of Tech Titans’ New California City

When the backers of a secretive effort to amass nearly $1 billion worth of land in California finally unveiled their vision this past summer, they did so in great detail. They announced plans to build a new city near San Francisco. They listed the Silicon Valley titans involved. 

California Forever, as the project was called, described itself as “a California company backed by California investors.”