As June 25 deadline for California’s Wealth Tax nears, conversations from tech billionaires’ ‘chat groups’ go viral
It started as a gripe session. Last fall, as a union-backed ballot measure to tax 5% of California billionaires’ net worth raced toward qualification, a private Signal chat lit up with some of the richest men in America—Google’s Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Stripe’s Patrick Collison, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong—commiserating over the threat to their fortunes. Then…