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Interview with Rich Branning, Sweep

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Our company started with a few buddies of mine from Pepperdine and one of their brothers, and they're all local, Southern California guys who moved to Pepperdine and grew up locally here in Los Angeles. I'm originally from Palo Alto, but I graduated from Pepperdine in 2012. However, this isn't software, these are vehicles.

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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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Because of that, it's very antiquated, both in terms of the process and the technology used. That's the problem�it's just so costly, expensive, and time consuming to produce a loan, yet the world of technology and automation is just an area the mortgage industry hasn't leveraged. It's just ridiculous. Why hasn't this been done before?

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Previously, Ian co-founded personal music sharing software provider Mediacode with Rob Lord. He holds a BA from UCSB and a JD/MBA from Pepperdine University, where he was the Student Body President of both Universities. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. Previously Ian worked for AOL’s Nullsoft unit. 1B+ Revenue.

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