Beyond Meat Builds Plant-based Protein for Meat Eaters

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Beyond Meat co-founder Brent Taylor

Beyond Meat co-founder Brent Taylor at the company’s R&D facility in El Segundo


A food startup in El Segundo is trying to save California from the drought, one grilled chicken strip at a time.

Beyond Meat has developed a process that turns pea and soy proteins into products that taste and — more importantly — have the texture of real beef and chicken.

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The “Artist-Entrepreneur” Is the New Normal in Digital Era

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Ali Spagnola social media influencer on Twitter and YouTube

Like so many hopefuls before her, Ali Spagnola moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career.

But Spagnola isn’t hoping to be “discovered.” She’s hoping to grow her online fan base, already in the millions, with help from the YouTube Space LA, a film production warehouse in Playa Vista that’s free for YouTube creators with at least 10,000 followers.

Spagnola, and the thousands of creators who use the YouTube Space LA, represent a new breed of entertainer that blends artistry with entrepreneurship.

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How Teens Are Making Thousands Per Month on Social Media

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Melissa Clark first realized her 8th grade daughter was a celebrity the day they arrived at her new school in Santa Clarita, and a crowd of middle schoolers surrounded her car and begged her daughter to take a picture with them.

The next day at school, she was “literally mobbed by about 200 people,” Clark said from her home in Burbank. “An administrator had to walk her from class to class.”

Three years later, Clark’s daughter — who has a make up tutorial channel on YouTube and 1.4 million followers on Instagram — is pulling in thousands of dollars a month from paid endorsements.

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Motivo Engineering Builds Electric Tractor to Power Indian Villages

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Motivo Engineering electric tractor

After building luxury toys like high-speed electric boats and futuristic three-wheeled motorcycles, the Torrance design studio Motivo Engineering is getting into subsistence farming.

The company has developed a multi-purpose electric tractor to help poor farmers in India till the soil and, more importantly, provide them with reliable access to electricity.

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