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

Both Sides of the Table

I meet with Bay Area entrepreneurs all the time and am actively looking to make investments there. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. In Washington DC you have government & defense.