Los Angeles

“If you're a passionate person, you have a great company idea, then, and it's in the video space whatsoever, I'll focus on that as an example, LA is absolutely where you have to be.”

“Virtually all of the leading multi-channel networks are based in Los Angeles, kind of the hub of that kind of creativity.”

“I would argue that if you were in, in entertainment, you might want to consider LA. If you were in, in the life sciences, you might want to consider Boston. If you are in, in media and ad tech or something or other, you might want to consider New York for that…”

“Well, listen, I think that, you know, whether you know, what drives the growth is venture capital, and we're fortunate in that we are a close proximity to Silicon Valley.”

“For kind of our investments in SF for LA, we're traditionally not the lead investor because we do like to lead that, leave that to someone who is a little bit closer, can be a little bit more hands-on.”

“And I, then I coined the phrase long LA, which I still use. And if you see on Twitter and things that kind of all came from some original ideas of me just being very bullish on what was going on in Los Angeles.”

“Today, 14% of all land in Los Angeles is parking lots”

“I see no signs of the Postmates acquisition being written off because I think the brand is very strong. It continues to be very strong in LA.”

“So there's been more than a hundred spin-outs now from SpaceX, more than a hundred. They've raised more than ten billion dollars, and the vast majority of them are in Los Angeles.”

“Even in the largest AV markets, where today we don't have AVs, like San Francisco and LA, our human-driven business is growing faster than the rest of the US.”