Benjamin Kuo’s Blog

There’s a strange thing I’ve been seeing in the last few months, which is finding out the number of technology industry executives at notable Silicon Valley or other technology firms, moving into, or who live in the Los Angeles area. This week, the LA Times reported that Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) has apparently purchased a home in Beverly Hills. I’ve run into Richard Wolpert, former Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, and now asssociated with venture firm Accel Partners, several times in Los Angeles–he lives in Westlake Village. Elon Musk, founder of PayPal and currently chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity (two Silicon Valley startups), lives in Bel Air. Another ex-Paypal exec, David O. Sacks, runs Geni.com (a Los Angeles startup) and lives in Beverly Hills. And I’ve mentioned before how embattled Yahoo CEO Terry Semel commutes from Bel Air every week to Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Is there anyone else out there I’m missing?

Update: At one point, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch was living in Newport Beach, I don’t know if he’s still there (though if you check the web registration information for Techcrunch.com, it’s still Arrington’s apartment in Manhattan Beach…).

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