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Ask HN: How is the tech scene in LA?

14 points asdev | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 00:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source

Wondering how the tech jobs/startup ecosystem is in Los Angeles. From searching around, seems like only aerospace/defense startups and big tech. Hardly any startups. The Who's Hiring thread from this month only had 2 entries from LA.
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lamroger ◴[08 Jul 25 14:08 UTC] No.44500150[source]▶
Been in LA for 2 years now and went to college in LA 10 years ago so have some data points to compare.

Startups in LA are interesting. Back in the day, there was a lot of Ad Tech / advent of big data. This is when Snapchat and Hulu were coming up. I’d go on Angellist and see who was hiring and who’d be down to meet.

Now, especially post covid, I feel sparks of excitement. I missed the crypto hype in LA so that was probably wild and weird. a16z opened an office in Santa Monica and do their speedrun accelerator. Focused on games and media it seems.

upfront hosted some cool cowork and mingle events too.

Two meetups I regularly go to is AI Tinkerers and MLOps. Generally it’s the same small crowd. I went to a Ruby meetup which was cool too.

Less of a young startup crowd. Maybe people got older and rich and retired early.

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1. yamatokaneko ◴[09 Jul 25 03:02 UTC] No.44506001[source]▶
>Less of a young startup crowd. Maybe people got older and rich and retired early.

nooo

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2. lamroger ◴[09 Jul 25 05:59 UTC] No.44506736[source]▶
I do think the early stage vcs like upfront, a16z, hustle fund are trying to foster more growt and i appreciate them

i wonder what other people think