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Startup founder behind San Francisco pro-Billionaire rally

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The March for Billionaire's rally took place in Alta Plaza Park on Saturday morning in San Francisco. There are about 214 billionaires that reside in California, but none of them attended the March for Billionaire’s rally held this week to honor their hard work. The March for Billionaire rally, organized by Derik Kauffman, a 26-year-old tech founder, surfaced online last week as a movement to oppose a billionaire tax proposal that could head to the ballots this November. The rally on Saturday morning garnered a lot of attention from passersby and journalists who came to observe a group of political theater trollsters and barely a dozen earnest pro-billionaire supporters at Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights. Advertisement Article continues below this ad “There is risk,” Kauffman told SFGATE about coming out in public support for billionaires. “I was probably the most hated guy on [Bluesky] for 16 hours.” But, he said, staying anonymous would not be practical in order to get his message

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