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

Both Sides of the Table

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.