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Elon Musk's Boring Company Abandons Plans for West LA Tunnel

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Hawthorne-based Boring Company , the company created by Elon Musk to create a network of underground tunnels to bypass traffic in Los Angeles, has abandoned plans to dig a tunnel on LA's Westwide. The company had hoped to build a tunnel below the 405 freeway and Sepulveda Boulevard.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. That's part one.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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App developers are spending a lot of money with the ad networks just to get users to download an app and go through your tutorial. I essentially build the company out of the bedroom I was renting from him in Brentwood, on Goshen. It all came back to this idea of on-boarding.

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sales vs marketing

AeA Los Angeles Council

Worked at Shearson Mortgage, Basic Four, Madge Networks, CalComp, Ingram Micro, etc. His client side experience includes senior management positions at Brentwood Medical Products, Inquiry handling Service, Stac, Inc., Panelists include: Mark Friedman , President of the Velos Group, an industry expert in Sales Lead Management.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

I own an iPod Touch (not an iPhone – my house in Brentwood gets literally ZERO AT&T bars). Want an iPhone but live in Brentwood like Mark Suster does? Why does iPhone only come on the AT&T network? Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I ran this morning with my iPod in tow.

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