'I'm a mayor that is picking up the phone and calling CEOs,' said Lurie during TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event on Thursday night. 'I'm calling entrepreneurs and saying, 'How can we keep you here'' or 'How can we get you back''' The first step to winning these folks back, he said, is addressing a rampant drug and homelessness crisis that's pushed many business leaders out of the city. Lurie has spent much of his first 100 days in office walking the city's most troubled neighborhoods. This week, he rolled back a longstanding program in which San Francisco handed out free pipes, foil, and straws that were used to ingest drugs, such as fentanyl. Lurie's 'common sense policies,' as he called them during his 2024 mayoral campaign, are largely being championed by technology leaders. As Ryan Peterson, the CEO of Flexport, walked off the stage at StrictlyVC while the San Francisco Mayor walked on, he yelled to Lurie: On Thursday, the mayor also introduced a new zoning proposal that would allow...
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