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Reflections on 2020: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

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Today, we have Andy Wilson, Executive Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org). In short, we accelerated our virtual and digital capabilities which has enhanced our ability to unify and elevate the massive and diverse SoCal region. He previously held C-level roles at Overture Services/Yahoo!,

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Yahoo Extends Free Food Perk In New York: Whither SoCal?

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Internet portal Yahoo is continuing its makeover back into a Silicon Valley style workplace, and apparently has extended its free food offer to employees at two of the company's New York locations, according to reports today. However, it looks like--so far--that revolution has skipped Yahoo's Southern California operations.

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Blake Irving, Yahoo!

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 -- Blake Irving, EVP and CPO, Yahoo! Blake Irving is executive vice president and chief product officer at Yahoo! Pepperdine Dean's Executive Leadership Series. Irving most recently was a professor at Pepperdine Universitys Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu, California.

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Tech Study Critical Of Region's Fragmentation, Geography

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Poizner's group cited "demonstrated potential" in SoCal in the tech industry, citing SpaceX, Snap, and Cornerstone OnDemand, expansion of Google, Yahoo! and Facebook in Silicon Beach, and the relocations of such Silicon Valley tech executives as Meg Whitman and Peter Thiel to the region.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. Their only option is an IPO. That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

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I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

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