As entrepreneurship starts to take root into the mind of America, different cities are establishing different themes of innovation. San Francisco has startups for startups sake, developing cloud based SaaS apps with quick seed rounds and short lifecycles. Detroit is primarily urban development and transportation, and New York is also urban centric.
So what's LA's theme? Big, baby. We're tackling big issues with big solutions. It's a variably buoyant cargo airship in Montebello, a private space company in Hawthorne, an entire campus opening in the arts district esclusively dedicated to clean tech, or an incubator that has doubled down and raised its seed money while others have decreased theirs, LA is about the big challenges and risks necessary for a future.
LA is what you call a "galactic city:" you see some people and say "where are THEY from," but more importantly it's a constant reminder that we are on a planet and different creatures abound.
A view of downtown's skyline on any weekend proves it: airships, helicopters, small aircraft, jets, spotlights, it's easy to see what it will look like in the year 3000. No other city can claim this.
Maybe its the weather: that dopamine rush you feel after 10 days of sunshine, or the sincere superficiality in that Angelenos truly just don't care. It translates to an ability to do and be whatever you want, with nobody expecting you to be a certain way or do certain things.
LA all day, all the way.
