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MARCH 17, 2010

We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. (my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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APRIL 17, 2012

ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are. North of the 101]. And for me.

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