That’s where our mail service used to be in Florida. We haven’t been in Florida for years.
Our current mail service is in lovely Beverly Hills, with the lab and shipping work happening a bit further east… right near Glendale, California. That’s a fairly normal area, compared to most of Los Angeles. That let us hire some people who weren’t “so LA”.
Our next step (hopefully) is a tech campus. Or at least a little mini-Google type campus or building somewhere nice. I visited Google last year, and I can’t imagine not doing something like that now! We want to put in one of quality-oriented parts of the US the areas where PhDs and other smart, wholesome type people flock to.
There’s plenty of good people in LA, too, of course, but concentration of them isn’t high enough and the slew low quality businesses in LA often give people here the bad models of customer service and product quality. We want to locate where there’s plenty of good examples for people to follow, so we don’t have to remind them constantly of how and why you should do things right. Pride and attention to detail are musts for both quality research and manufacturing.