Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

LA has the annual Monty Conference. It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world. There is much magic going on in this town with both pure tech as well as media tech. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. He built & IPOd Demand Media. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). for $565 million to Excite.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . startups.

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