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Reflections on 2020: Harrison Tang, Spokeo

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parents basement. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are.

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