Nellie Bowles
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“If you even publish those words, it will make me scream and pull out my hair and scratch my fingers on the chalkboard.”
Our story on the sprawling, booming LA tech scene involved visits to Gravity, Idealab, Maker Studios, Nasty Gal, Tastemade, Rubicon and Oculus. Come see.
In Part One of this LA Stories series, Nellie Bowles has kale shakes with engineers and sits in freeway traffic, chatting up venture capitalists on Bluetooth.
“You’ve got to show that we are part of the solution, not just part of the problem.”
“I got some time to kill; I tried to pay my hotel bill with bitcoin.”
“When I first discovered ProTools ... I ruined a lot of music.”
“Maybe a random 25-year-old wants to come and build something actually amazing.”
“Now it’s kind of a joke -- you always need a private violinist on a jet.”
“I text before I speak in the morning. And the dawn is interrupted by the illumination of my cellphone.”
“Celebrities, we’ve always gotten stones thrown at us, and, you know, for good reason: We’re annoying.”