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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. You can build a team of 100+ people in LA without needing to hire outside of LA. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.