socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. That said, I did enjoy this talk by a16z's Peter Levine regarding the future of cloud computing.

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Santa Barbara Cloud Computing San Diego Southern California 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

So Skype was ubiquitous. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 So at least they preserved some value and they didn’t “ pull an AOL “ But it wasn’t exactly the boon that they had expected.

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