Governing Like a Startup

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Matt Mahan, the wildly popular mayor of San Jose, California, was recently reelected with a whopping 87 percent of the vote. How do you get to what Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt jokingly called (echoing The Daily Show host Jon Stewart) "Vladimir Putin numbers?" As Mahan laid out on the latest episode of our podcast hosted by former Mayors Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and Kasim Reed of Atlanta, a major part of his success has been zeroing in on five main policy goals: "Until we become the safest big city in the country, end unsheltered homelessness, clean up our neighborhoods, and make it easier to start a business and build housing in our city," Mahan said, "the rest of it is kind of a…