Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he wants to build a chocolate factory. One problem: Cacao trees don't naturally grow in Los Angeles.
L.A.'s own Willy Wonka? The 'father' of the Xbox is now perfecting lab-grown chocolate

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