CIO Entertainment Invest Santa Monica 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. I know that I call them often to co-invest.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.
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