Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA

[IGSaint12]

in a few years he is going to be like mike tyson, going all over the place being contrite and self deprecating

He's not that way now?

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I agree, it's mostly just interesting to watch a train wreck in slow motion, kanye should focus on creating and nurturing the next "black ralph lauren" instead of he himself being the one, he can be the Medici of the black/hip hop community if he wanted to, that is the best role he can play IMO

Yep

A huge part of success is knowing when you are out of your element/league

Ye is not built for fashion. OR really, anything outside of music. Imagine if someone came up to Kanye w/no music experience and said 'i want u to make me the next kanye TODAY otherwise you are holding me back'. He would probably head butt them. But thats basically what he is doing with these fashion houses. Its a joke

 

[Reality]

Most indian cats have to partner with white boys to get their foot in the door. I've been to events and no one took me serious until I started making the rounds with an Asian friend I made there. It was ridiculous. There was a show called "Black in Tech America" on CNN that followed black entrepreneurs in Silicon and eventually most of them had to relocate due to blatant racism. I'm talking sundown town cops called on them for being in the neighborhood they lived racism.

The positive is that there are some less racist whites in the South ironically. Because they aren't apart of that network, they are willing to take a chance on a black entrepreneur's idea. The only problem is they have significantly less money than Paul Graham, Google Ventures, etc. I've taken some meetings though, I could probably raise around $1-1.5 if I needed too down South but it would be TOUGH.

@theworldismine13 @Reality

very interesting. and yeah, i saw that "black in tech america" show. im sure there have to be a few success stories, though. and i think the VC arms of some of your larger, F500 players would be less discriminatory...

also, how much of this boils down to pedigree? if i remember correctly, the handful of black entrepreneurs that were looking for funding didnt necessarily have your Ivy or Stanford/MIT/Caltech backgrounds. i also wonder how much of the problem is one of just being able to build the right team so you can have a decent pitch, have good product demos, etc...

 

[NZA]

He's not that way now?

where is kanye being contrite and self depricating? all i see is him calling himself a genius and telling other people they dont know what they are talking about, or if they wont help him then they are irrelevant and fell off. please tell me where he is doing the opposite right now?

 

[IGSaint12]

where is kanye being contrite and self depricating? all i see is him calling himself a genius and telling other people they dont know what they are talking about, or if they wont help him then they are irrelevant and fell off. please tell me where he is doing the opposite right now?

I was talking more about him being all over the place with what's he's saying.

 

[NZA]

I was talking more about him being all over the place with what's he's saying.

oh, i just meant that he would be going from interview to interview like mike tyson has, basically talking about how out of control he has been, not that he is all over the place as in being inconsistent or contradictory