Wil Chockley

May 3, 2024 | dotla.beehiiv.com | Wil Chockley

Happy holidays from dot.LA! We’re collecting 2024 predictions for Los Angeles, tech, and startups. Reply to this email to get your prediction featured in our next weekly update. It’s the best of time and worst of times for two of the most prominent Los Angeles tech companies. Formerly high-flying Santa Monica startup Bird (now based in Miami) filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, capping a slow fall from grace since it peaked at a $2.5B valuation in 2019.

May 3, 2024 | dotla.beehiiv.com | Wil Chockley

This is Part II of our deep dive on Adam Miller, one of LA’s most successful (and philanthropic) tech entrepreneurs. When we left off Adam’s story last week, he had just sold his Santa Monica-based HR tech company Cornerstone OnDemand for $5.2B in 2021. (If you missed Part I last week, you can find that here.) After 20 years of company building and an exit like Cornerstone’s, most of us would take a deep breath and think about retirement, or at least a very long vacation.

May 3, 2024 | dotla.beehiiv.com | Wil Chockley

Happy 2024, dot.LA readers and tech enthusiasts! We’re kicking off the new year with a profile of an early stage startup right at the intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley: CyberFilm AI. Read on to learn about how Russell Palmer (an AI engineer and product manager) and his brother Andrew (a computer science major turned filmmaker) are building a company to lead Hollywood into the AI era.

Feb 5, 2024 | dotla.beehiiv.com | Wil Chockley

🔦 Spotlight Does it feel like your power goes out more and more these days? You’re not crazy - it actually does. Incidence of power outages has increased almost 20% in the years 2013 to 2021, from about 1.2 per household per year to over 1.4. While that might not be noticeable to the average person, the average duration of power outages has increased by over 100%(!) from around 3.5 hours to over 7 hours. And that isn’t the only problem with the electrical grid in California.

Feb 2, 2024 | dot.la | Wil Chockley

🔦 Spotlight Does it feel like your power goes out more and more these days? You’re not crazy - it actually does. Incidence of power outages has increased almost 20% in the years 2013 to 2021, from about 1.2 per household per year to over 1.4. While that might not be noticeable to the average person, the average duration of power outages has increased by over 100%(!) from around 3.5 hours to over 7 hours. And that isn’t the only problem with the electrical grid in California.