socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. FourSquare.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cornerstone on Demand brought together the area’s best & brightest for its fourth annual LA Tech Summit , once again hosted at the Fairmont. Lasky praised Snapchat’s rollout of Stories, admired Spiegel as a constant inventor, and hinted at a future product flow that is very unique. LA Tech has arrived.

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