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Mayor Garcetti Launches BlueLA, New EV Car Sharing Program

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The new program, which is being run by Blue Solutions , will initially offer up electric vehicles in the Westlake, Pico Union, Koreatown, Echo Park, and Downtown Los Angeles areas of Los Angeles, and specifically is aimed at expanding access to electric vehicles to low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Chris Hollod On Investing With Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle

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Wallach on investments out of a new fund, Inevitable Ventures. They think I live in Hollywood, but there's Santa Monica, Venice, Echo Park, Silverlake, there's a scene downtown, I can go for a walk in the hills, I can go take a walk on the beach, there is just so much going on. I try to tell my friends that all the time.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

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Mike Edwards, who is an investor that lives in Whistler, and who is an angel, basically funded it. He's fairly well known, he funded another company called Punchd, which recently sold to Google. We met for the first time, and really hit it off, and he footed the bill to get this built.

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