08 December 2013

Silicon Valley VCs Don't Want Kanye West, DONDA

Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA: ". . . . West's efforts to drum up tech money for DONDA have not been fruitful."I think he's getting frustrated. People are enjoying meeting him because he's Kanye and they want to take him around, but then they're not actually investing," said one source. Investors like the coolness by proxy, just not his pitch style. "If you see his behavior, it's so erratic, he's not focused and kind of all over the place," the source added. West's caustic public criticism of investors has also left VCs a little gunshy...."

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