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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

Tech.Co

During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. That really manifested into us doing events. And UploadVR was born.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem.

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