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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Zorik Gordon built & IPO’s ReachLocal. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.