TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2020
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that he has moved to Texas, confirming months of speculation that the billionaire would leave California, a state of which he has become increasingly critical. His other privately held company, SpaceX, is planning a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 21, 2021
When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk.
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socalTECH
AUGUST 5, 2014
It looks like Hawthorne-based SpaceX is confident it will keep its headquarters in Hawthorne for quite a long time--despite setting up a commercial launch facility in Texas this week--based on details on the recent sale of the company''s leased headquarters at 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne--to a commercial real estate investment trust.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 19, 2008
Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the commercial spaceflight startup headed by ex-PayPal founder Elon Musk, has named a new president the firm said this week. SpaceX said that Gwynne Shotwell has been named as President, reporting to Musk. The firm is venture backed by The Founders Fund and Elon Musk.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Los Angeles-based startup Emotive, which develops conversational text messaging software, said this morning that it has raised $50M in its Series B funding round. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX. The company said the funding brings its valuation to $400M.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 14, 2016
The most obvious, is to drive sales. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. How did you start the company? Ryan Costello: I started out as an event producer in Washington DC. So how did you end up in Santa Monica?
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
The IPO filing by Rubicon Project is not only notable for one of Southern California''s''s fast growing Internet advertising companies: it looks to be the the first IPO filing by a venture-backed, technology startup since 2012. The question now: which other, big local technology startups are likely to follow Rubicon Project to market?
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