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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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

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Let me use LA as an example. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners). So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Los Angeles. I live in the city of Santa Monica.