Could it be more of a community or environmental thing than some inherent quality of the coders in LA? For example, up here in SV startups are everywhere, and

Could it be more of a community or environmental thing than some inherent quality of the coders in LA? For example, up here in SV startups are everywhere, and you can't go anywhere without bumping into someone who works at a startup or major tech company. It's in the air. So it's a lot more likely that an engineer has a friend who sold their company for millions of dollars or who made a bunch of money working for a company like Google. Or maybe all of their friends are working at startups right now. This kind of stuff makes startup life seem a lot more viable, like "yeah, I'm just as good as them - I could do that." I imagine this concentration is much harder to come by in LA. I think Mark Suster is on the right track with a program like Launchpad LA - bring a bunch of entrepreneurs in together and create that community around startups and risk-taking.