Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. I know that I call them often to co-invest.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. I meet with Bay Area entrepreneurs all the time and am actively looking to make investments there.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.
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