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

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The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands.

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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. Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. Talk about this funding and what's next for you? What is Stem?

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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. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. Talk a bit about your funding, and how you got to it?

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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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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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The key to the LA tech scene is finding people who really understand content, and funding pepole in content who understand technology, and getting together. Michele Ruiz: The only thing I would add, is this is a software-as-a-service solutioneverything is on our online platform. Dan Gould: Michele is too modest.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

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Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool.