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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. We both wanted to continue to build a world-class staff at GRP from which to build future leaders in either tech startups or in our investment firm. He walked me through both the logic and the math.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ).