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The Hotel Manager Called Social Media a Fad. Keen Social Built an Agency on Proving Him Wrong.
Esteven Gamez learned social media in hospitality when the work still sounded frivolous. His Long Beach agency now sells the opposite proposition: listen closely, make something culturally specific, and measure what happened next.
Intertrend made Toyota the car your parents wouldn’t recognize
An anime rebellion, eight miniature movies, and an agency in a former Psychic Temple. Inside Intertrend’s unusually specific approach to making brands matter to Asian American audiences.
PRSSA Long Beach gives students something to show for it
A banned-book game. A student-run agency. A published byline. At Cal State Long Beach, a public relations chapter gives career preparation a tangible form.
JLOOP builds for life after the click
A Long Beach creative agency follows the user from the pretty screen into the difficult business underneath. Its work runs from clinic queues to IBM knowledge sharing - with a few lessons about what design can, and cannot, fix.
Friends Everywhere and the art of making one shoot go further
Seven mini-campaigns. Two shoot days. Friends Everywhere’s Levi’s work reveals an agency built around a practical question: how much can a good idea do before you need another one?
Gra Fika Graphics and the case for a brand that travels
A logo, a brochure, a website: Gra Fika Graphics puts them on the same service menu. The interesting part is what happens between them.
West Coast Choppers built a bike shop you could wear
Jesse James made custom motorcycles that few people could buy and a badge almost anyone could wear. The interesting business lives in the distance between the two.
TLG Marketing sells the complicated stuff
Engineering firms, cybersecurity specialists, and law offices need more than a handsome homepage. This Long Beach agency connects the website, the advertising, and the follow-up.
Brandon Ridley Builds Marketing Teams With an Expiration Date
He began at a soldering bench, built a power-electronics test instrument, and crossed into industrial marketing. Now his pitch to hardware founders is unusually finite: give him six months to build the function, then let him leave.
Cymetrix Software
Cymetrix Software is a global Salesforce and data analytics consulting firm founded in 2016 that helps enterprises modernize their CRM, data, and AI workflows. With a certified team of 150+ consultants and offices in the USA, India, UK, and Japan, Cymetrix delivers multi-cloud Salesforce implementations, MuleSoft integrations, Tableau and Looker analytics, and applied AI - including Agentforce AI agents built on Salesforce Data Cloud - for clients across manufacturing, retail, BFSI, pharma, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors.
Long Wall
Long Wall is a Long Beach, California defense manufacturer building cost-effective, mass-producible missile defense systems. Founded in 2017 as the rocket startup ABL Space Systems, it rebranded to Long Wall in February 2025 and pivoted from commercial satellite launch to defense, repurposing years of launch-vehicle engineering into interceptors, target rockets, and deployable ground infrastructure. Its lineup includes Cyclops, a surface-launched exoatmospheric interceptor; RSX, a low-cost liquid booster for flight testing and threat replication; and Ironwood, rapidly deployable ground support equipment. The company's thesis is that modern threats - hypersonic weapons, growing nuclear arsenals, and raid sizes in the hundreds - have outrun the price and production volume of legacy interceptors, so defense needs magazine depth measured in thousands, not dozens.
Dan Piemont
Dan Piemont is the co-founder and CEO of Long Wall, the Long Beach defense company formerly known as ABL Space Systems. An MIT physics and economics graduate who came to rocketry through Wall Street trading and venture capital rather than an engineering bench, he spent seven years building low-cost, containerized launch vehicles before pivoting the company in 2024-2025 toward mass-producible missile defense. Long Wall now develops the Cyclops exoatmospheric interceptor, RSX liquid boosters for threat replication, and Ironwood mobile ground systems, repurposing the hard-won technology of a launch startup that survived two failed orbital attempts into a bet on American homeland defense.
Cargomatic
Cargomatic is a digital freight marketplace and technology platform that connects shippers with local and regional trucking capacity in real time. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Long Beach, California, it specializes in drayage and short-haul freight - moving containers off ports and onto roads - alongside intermodal, full-truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), and white-glove delivery. By pairing a carrier mobile app with smart routing and bundling software, Cargomatic helps fill empty truck miles, speed cargo off congested docks, and give shippers visibility into shipments that traditionally lived on paper and phone calls.
James Dorris
James Dorris is the co-founder and CEO of Odys Aviation, a Long Beach company building long-range, hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft that take off and land like a helicopter but cruise like an airplane. A former fusion physicist who started at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, he helped build the propulsion and levitation tech at Virgin Hyperloop One before turning to flight. At Odys he is chasing aircraft that can lift off from a helipad, fly up to 1,000 miles on a hybrid system, and cut regional travel emissions sharply while serving defense, logistics, and passenger markets.
Nanna Nielsen
Nanna Nielsen is the Chief Business Officer of Critical Loop, a Los Angeles-area industrial power company that helps factories, airports and data centers get electricity in days instead of years by pairing battery storage with autonomous control software. A Danish-born operator who once ran banking operations for fintech unicorn GoCardless - overseeing more than $52 billion in transactions for 93,000+ businesses - she now applies that same operational rigor to fixing America's grid bottleneck. The company raised a $26 million Series A in April 2026.
Richard Gerstein
Richard Gerstein is the Chairman and CEO of Cargomatic, the marketplace that matches local and regional freight with the trucks already driving past it. He grew up on the docks of his father's less-than-truckload business in Chicago, founded the multi-modal logistics software company IntelliTrans, and since 2017 has rebuilt Cargomatic into a leading provider of local LTL, drayage, and white glove freight services. He pairs a UC Berkeley transportation engineering background with a lifetime spent around loading docks.
Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare is a Fortune 500 managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, that provides government-sponsored health insurance - chiefly Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA Marketplace plans - to low-income and underserved Americans. Founded in 1980 by emergency-room physician Dr. C. David Molina, it grew from a single clinic in Wilmington into a multi-state insurer covering roughly 5.8 million members across some 20 states, with about $43 billion in 2025 premium revenue.
Shane Dawson
Shane Dawson (born Shane Lee Yaw) is one of YouTube's original superstar creators, a Long Beach kid who turned a camera and a knack for characters into 4.8 billion combined channel views. Over nearly two decades he pivoted from sketch comedy to celebrity documentary deep-dives, co-authored two New York Times bestselling memoirs, won multiple Streamy Awards, and launched a record-setting makeup collaboration with Jeffree Star. After a high-profile controversy and YouTube demonetization in 2020, he returned in 2021, relocated to a Colorado farm with his husband Ryland Adams, and in 2023 welcomed twin sons. By 2025 he was back with another Jeffree Star docuseries, rebuilding quietly but unmistakably.