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LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., billion investment vehicle that was launched in partnership with the private equity fund, Permira, according to a report in USA Today.

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The Silent Killer – The Company Your Community Never Created

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That’s our great gain as Snapchat has also raised a lot of money at a monster valuation ($10 billion reported) and has been scooping up talented Stanford engineers and relocating them to LA. Local mentors matter. Locally we call it “the Snapchat effect.” As was FarmVille (sold to Zynga) and many, many others.

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