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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. In a world where perhaps foreign governments start propagating false information to influence our society, guaranteeing authenticity would become a very big deal. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others.

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