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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). You can find very talented technology executives. You don’t.

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

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The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. But we do have great technology developers. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.