Here is a secret I will tell only to my HN buddies: for the right person, the studios have the money to beat most Silicon Valley giants and can definitely wipe

Here is a secret I will tell only to my HN buddies: for the right person, the studios have the money to beat most Silicon Valley giants and can definitely wipe the floor with whatever the Santa Monica startups will offer. The key is you have to love "the biz". This is LA, after all =) Source: I'm a senior software architect at a very major Hollywood studio. Microsoft once offered me a nice salary, but the studio beat them by $20,000. I love LA.