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PAGE 3: Snapping to It
Targeted Tech: Snap Inc.’s Evan Spiegel.

Evan Spiegel was in London for the Snap Inc. roadshow, offering up what one local paper called a “sleek presentation.” Missing, according to one report, were projections on the company’s future revenues or advertising share. Domestic stops on the pre-IPO tour included New York, Boston, and San Francisco. … Apple Inc., shopping for content, was said to have had its eye on Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment. One report had Tim Cook participating, indicating they had progressed far down the road. In the end, Apple acquired not a studio but two programs: James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” and a reality show called “Planet of the Apps.” … Caroline Nahas steps in as lead director at DineEquity after the surprise departure of Julia Stewart as CEO. Richard Dahl is interim chief executive officer … Richard Riordan tied the knot for the fourth time, marrying Elizabeth Gregory, head of admissions at Harvard-Westlake School. The 86-year-old former two-term mayor tweeted it “was a beautiful day.” … Architectural Digest identified nine of the best academic buildings in the world, and two of them were designed by L.A. architects. The $30 million Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, designed by Michael Maltzan, was noted for its “sense of collaboration and openness”; the Bloomberg Center of Cornell Tech, designed by Thom Mayne, will become one of the largest net-zero buildings in the United States when it opens this summer. It will generate all its power on campus. … USC announced it would build a state-of-the-art hospital on its health sciences campus. Tom Jackiewicz said the new facility “will provide the care of the future.” … Tom Barrack has filed plans with the city to build a 53,000-square-foot home on North Chalon Road in Beverly Crest. The nearly eight-acre lot will have an additional 8,400 square feet of accessory living quarters. … Patrick Soon-Shiong told an industry group last week that the Food and Drug Administration had greenlighted a cancer vaccine his team was working on for later stages of clinical trials. He also unveiled Nant AI, an augmented intelligence platform he said could process genome activity of cancer tumors at high speed, and Nant Cloud, a cloud server that generates bioinformatic data at 26 seconds per patient. … Pamela J. Joyner has joined the board of the J. Paul Getty Trust. She is also a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Americas Foundation, and a member of the director’s circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a member of the modern and contemporary art visiting committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. … Larry Bond will be leading a large contingent of Angelenos to the Young Presidents’ Organization Edge conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, next week. Among the local players planning to make the Canada trip are Peter Lowy, Gary Schoenfeld, Arianna Huffington, Maria Shriver, Gillian Zucker, Luc Robitaille, Gene Simmons, William Shatner, and Anthony Pritzker. … Frank Gehry signed up to teach an online class for MasterClass, a Bay Area educational company. … David Geffen celebrated his 74th birthday last week. … Culinary milestone: Wolfgang Puck catered his 23rd Academy Awards ceremony dinner. … Michael Banner of the Los Angeles LDC has been named to the board of the California Reinvestment Coalition. … Nicolas Berggruen tweets: “Charismatic leaders can unite an entire nation – but it takes a great leader to build for the lasting good of all.” … The Los Angeles Sports Council was scheduled to give Peter Ueberroth its lifetime achievement award at the nonprofit’s 12th annual L.A. Sports Awards on Feb. 27. Olympic track star Allyson Felix (her third sportswoman of the year award) and Dave Roberts, coach of the year, were also on deck to be honored. … Norman Lear hosted a fundraiser for Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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