As part of our Re/code Special Series LA Stories, our news partner CNBC talked to some players on the LA tech scene — looking good, Peter Pham and Mike Jones of Science, Gravity’s Amit Kapur and Sophia Amoruso of Nasty Gal — and also our reporter on the ground, Nellie Bowles.
Also, sorry, but surfboards were unavoidable — as is a whole lot of innovation in the Southland.
You can read the whole series here, which will be running all week through Sunday.
Here’s their report:
And here’s me on video talking about the Re/code report, LA Stories — with my Rayban aviators, natch:
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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