Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️

Founder & CEO, @CAForever. Raised $1bn+ to build a new city on 100+ square miles an hour north of SF/SV. Join the call to break ground in 2026! Link below.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

The biggest shipyard in China and the biggest shipyard in South Korea both fit inside the Solano Shipyard.

6.5 miles of waterfront on a federal deep-water channel used by Panamax class, destroyer-sized ships.

There are 365,000 skilled workers within 50 miles.

Just sayin'.

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Latest shipbuilding numbers are out from BRS and they are not good.

China had gone from 51% in 2022 to 70.9% in 2025.

That is from 2,107 ships to 4,055.

[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

About 18 months ago, I shared my excitement about California Forever and Esmeralda with an elder member of the Stanford Alumni Real Estate Council (SREC).

I was told these projects would NEVER happen.

Fast forward to this week: my friends @jansramek and @devonzuegel headlined the 2026 SREC Spring Retreat in Healdsburg, organized around the theme of placemaking. 😁

Ambitious urbanist founders are shifting the Overton window.

Urbanist Ventures is here to find and support them before they are popular.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@schaffner4449 @Gulfexplorer1 Analysis by @JLL

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

The biggest shipyard in China and the biggest shipyard in South Korea both fit inside the Solano Shipyard.

6.5 miles of waterfront on a federal deep-water channel used by Panamax class, destroyer-sized ships.

There are 365,000 skilled workers within 50 miles.

Just sayin'.

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Latest shipbuilding numbers are out from BRS and they are not good.

China had gone from 51% in 2022 to 70.9% in 2025.

That is from 2,107 ships to 4,055.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@KristinNap95 Correct! It's just a few miles upstream from there on the Deep Water Ship Channel that goes to Ports of West Sacramento and of Stockton.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

Thanks! Taking these in turn:

As for (a), we believe in that.

As for (b), SecNav sees it differently: https://t.co/hHMWXEVSWx

As for (c), we are not a shipbuilder and won't be. Our goal is to be the place to build a new yard for anyone who wants to do it, whether an established domestic shipbuilder, one of the neo-shipbuilders, or an allied shipbuilder, and we believe we're that. All the data says that the Navy's 2026 shipbuilding plan cannot be delivered in existing yards only, so the existing players will have to start some new yards.

It's hard to see how the Navy hits its shipbuilding and ship repair targets without at least one new massive shipbuilding complex, and based on all of our discussions, there is no better place to do this in America than the Solano Shipyard, once you go through the list of all the things you need to make something of this scale work.

[Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao @SECNAV]

We’re not buying into foreign shipyards—we’re having them invest in U.S. shipbuilding.

By bringing their operations stateside, we can crank out our ships quicker and create over half a million American jobs.

It’s time to breathe new life into our nation’s industrial base.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@Perseus_vc @johnkonrad Because those old shipyards have been turned into condos and coffee shops.

[Sparks_splinters @Alexmil27968274]

@jansramek @johnkonrad I’m a structural welder in the PNW. I make 68/hr. On the check. I work all year. 12 years going. I would take a modest pay cut to help America and help build ships. Give me that opportunity please.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@Alexmil27968274 @johnkonrad Working hard on it!

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@__dwr__ Distribute the supply chain, but then the ships have to be assembled somewhere.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@johnsmith3433 You realize we build the Falcon engines, B-21 Raiders, and oil tankers here right?

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@VGrubsky @TrentTelenko It's already zoned for maritime industrial activities.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@ZSepv2 Thank you. Stay tuned!

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@schaffner4449 Skilled workers in areas that are naturally trained or re-trained into shipbuilding. Manufacturing, construction, logistics, etc.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@CJHandmer @lymanstoneky Hard to do for something as major as a shipyard!

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@cpgrabow To start with, there are dozens of ships that need to be built for the US Navy, not just combatants but also auxiliaries, which cannot and should not be built abroad.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@DGartifact Working on it. Stay tuned :)

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@matthewl_cn It’s better than anywhere else you can do this in the US when you consider skills, unemployment, absolute labor pool etc.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@clumma There's nowhere else to do this at this scale, and certainly not on the Pacific.

Solano or bust.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

@DeplorableChuc3 Sorry to break this to you but China is on the Pacific.

[Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI) @ReaganInstitute]

We're excited to announce that Jan Sramek, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of California Forever, will speak at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum.

Housing, permitting, urban development, and the question of whether America can still build the things we need — these are among the most important conversations on American economic life, and they're central to RNEF's agenda this year. Mark your calendar for Friday, May 29 to hear this conversation live from #RNEF2026.

📅Register for the livestream: https://t.co/iHFbfrGlNT

@jansramek @CAForever