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Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop: https://thehustle.co/ A group of billionaires has proposed building a new city in California’s east Solano County halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento. The project, called the East Solano Plan, would provide affordable housing and jobs to as many as 400k people, and the investors behind it are the founders of some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But why would they go from funding startups to an entire city? The Hustle's Noelle Medina road trips to Solano County to find out.