Santa Monica is becoming Silicon Beach

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-commre-tech-20111016,0,6170780.story?obref=obnetwork

by dirkdeman • 15 years ago

42 11 15 years ago

Axsuul• 15 years ago

Should also mention that Hulu, MySpace, Fandango are also in that area

earbitscom• 15 years ago

Chill, Grubwith.us, Earbits, Vokle, LaughStub (now TicketMob), BetterWorks, DocStoc, Mahalo, LunchMoney, TopSpin, W4, Rubicon Project, and a whole lot more. And that's just some of the ones I personally know on the west side.

dpe82• 15 years ago

I believe Jason said recently he's moving Mahalo to Culver City because the rent in Santa Monica is getting too high.

Or he's running out of runway. Or both.

georgemcbay• 15 years ago

I'm not sure if that's an argument for or against?

mgalica• 15 years ago

AW SNAP. At least they're not in Culver City.

tlrobinson• 15 years ago

Arguably every beach is a silicon beach, since sand is composed mostly of silicon dioxide.

But LA also has Silicone Valley... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley#Adult_enter...

kittxkat• 15 years ago

that office looks amazing!

jpdoctor• 15 years ago

Don't listen to the article! It's terrible here!

There's a big yellow ball in the sky making the place constantly warm, you can't get any work done!

But seriously: Founder of Caltech had the Pepperdine property and decided to put the school elsewhere so that more work would get done.

lclaude01• 15 years ago

My office was on Main Street, Santa Monica for 5 years. Coming from NYC , the sun , the beach ...wow...after the first year, it started to feel like "groundhog day"...every day blue sky, sun, same stupid movie business conversation, at the bars, with the young drunk girls wannabe movie star...the guy above is so right. The sun , the beach, the drunk beautiful stupid girls are just distractions. Took my bags and now back to the east coast dreaming of the sun.

tzm• 15 years ago

We launched a startup at DEMO 2010 vowing to change e-commerce. We had an office at the Santa Monica airport. My neighbor was David Ellison. My other neighbor was Harrison Ford.

We pivoted and I left to focus on my own company in NY.

We often had meetings that involved major VCs and founders visiting the area. I left the company with the impression that Santa Monica rocks and is definitely "silicon beach".

kd1220• 15 years ago

When the tech industry is booming the silicon epithet is wantonly attached to any geographical feature. I remember back in 2000 when New York was becoming "Silicon Alley", South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale - Boca Raton - West Palm Beach) was "Silicon Beach", and Israel was forming a "Silicon Wadi." New York is still mostly alleys, Florida mostly beaches and Israel mostly deserts; not many glimmers of silicon remain. I bet this time around there will be "Silicon Fjords" in Scandinavia and "Silicon Rainforests" in South America.

The tech industry will make beachheads in various places and eventually be swallowed up and integrated into the industries that already dominate the area.

Santa Monica is becoming Silicon Beach

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