Rich Raddon is an American

United States

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 entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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 and film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

. In December 2009, along with investment banker Zach James, Raddon co-founded MovieClips, a movie

Film

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 clips

Video clip

Video clips are short clips of video, usually part of a longer recording. The term is also more loosely used to mean any short video less than the length of a traditional television program.- On the Internet :...

 sharing Web

World Wide Web

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 startup company

Startup company

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 located in Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica, California

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Raddon was formerly the director of the Los Angeles Film Festival

Los Angeles Film Festival

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, but resigned his position in November 2008 after it was disclosed that he donated $1,500, through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to pass Proposition 8

California Proposition 8 (2008)

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, banning same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage

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 in California.

Raddon is the brother of house

House music

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 DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 Ryan Raddon, better known as Kaskade.