It turned out that Jan Sramek, now 36, had grander plans. He convinced a bunch of ultra-wealthy people from the technology and investing world to build an entirely new city in a farming and grazing area off San Francisco, the ultra-wealthy's vision of a new 'utopia.
'Flannery Associates was the corporate entity born to acquire the land for that dream city, envisioned as a master-planned, post-21st century community not too far from the Bay Area.