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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works. brb walking out.

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Interview with Mike Starkenburg, Image Metrics

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Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along. Editor's note: you can see Image Metrics "Emily" demo on their web site ).

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

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For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

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The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. At the time, the primary platforms having an impact on Hollywood were Facebook and Twitter. Talk about this funding and what's next for you? What is Stem?

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Interview with Matthias Galica, ShareSquare

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For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics. The best metrics are estimated impressions. READ MORE>>.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. We all went to Oakwood High School, in North Hollywood in Los Angeles. Talk a bit about your funding, and how you got to it? Three years later, there's no looking back, and we've now raised around $2M in total funding. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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