Chamillionaire Is Now An Entrepreneur In Residence At A Venture Capital Firm!
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In a letter penned by VC Mark Suster explaining the head-turning week he's had at Upfront Ventures in Los Angeles, he explains the presence of a new face around the office: Chamillionaire. The same Chamillionaire who was showing us how to get our respective shines on not a decade ago. But if Kanye has taught us anything, it's that we can find success in multiple creative outlets. In the past five years or so, Cham has been quietly but actively involved in the tech startup scene, from speaking on social media engagement in the music industry to hanging out with Y Combinator associates.
He's also been making some investments himself. He was one of the earliest investors in Maker Studios, an online video network founded in 2009 and sold to Disney for $500 million last year. The firm he's currently hanging with and advising, Upfront Ventures, has a vast portfolio that includes some acquired startups such as Bill Me Later (Rick Ross may or may not have been referring to this method of monetary transaction on his verse for Nicki Minaj's "I Am Your Leader"). Suffice it to say that Chamillionaire has transcended the days when he explained on YouTube how Michael Jordan sonned him, or maybe that was just an early example of his Internet savvy and ability to manipulate viral stories and plant social media engagement. At any rate, in a world in which Internet entrepreneurs like Ben Horowitz make business decisions through the inspiration of rap songs, it's not surprising to see that we now have rappers getting their own piece of the pie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0FPhjl1Kw
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/02/chamillionaire-is-now-an-entrepreneur-in-residence-at-a-venture-capital-firm
He's also been making some investments himself. He was one of the earliest investors in Maker Studios, an online video network founded in 2009 and sold to Disney for $500 million last year. The firm he's currently hanging with and advising, Upfront Ventures, has a vast portfolio that includes some acquired startups such as Bill Me Later (Rick Ross may or may not have been referring to this method of monetary transaction on his verse for Nicki Minaj's "I Am Your Leader"). Suffice it to say that Chamillionaire has transcended the days when he explained on YouTube how Michael Jordan sonned him, or maybe that was just an early example of his Internet savvy and ability to manipulate viral stories and plant social media engagement. At any rate, in a world in which Internet entrepreneurs like Ben Horowitz make business decisions through the inspiration of rap songs, it's not surprising to see that we now have rappers getting their own piece of the pie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0FPhjl1Kw
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/02/chamillionaire-is-now-an-entrepreneur-in-residence-at-a-venture-capital-firm
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That's dope. Good for Cham. I want another Mixtape Messiah tho.
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Black Excellence
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I always liked him
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Good for him glad he didn't go broke like a lot of others and made something of himself
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Black excellence
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he really followed that master p blueprint
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That's a gooood look for him, dayum I'm impressed and happy for him. He'll make more money there than any position he could be in within the music industry. Seems to me that he's found his calling. Shout outs to him for hanging out with Master P, nice to see the game rubbed off on him.
Good video too, very uplifting, Houston get it in, I respect him.
Be careful with the tech business tho, very easy to lose all of your loot if you're not careful.
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Smart dude.
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sound like he #hustlin to me
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I told yall ? that's always talking ? about houston/Texas moment died with ? c. Come to my city our local rappers doing better than your nationwide artists. Mike Jones is still richer than a lot of you ? . Chamillionaire had major money before the deal. Slim thug had mansions and cars before he met pharrell. Flip is a millionaire and still has all his jewelry and cars. Z-ro can make 8k an hour for a walkthrough. Lil Keke got a mansion, Lil O got a million dollar home near Bellaire. Pokey own resturants also.DJ Screw died with $20,000 in his pocket, hundreds of thousands in shoebox and record cases scattered around his house. I hate to mention riff raff amongst real ? but yall see how our state been good to him. Texas has always been a lucrative market to cash in as a rapper off and on the mic
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I read that he was shadowing Master P for a while. We see how that turned out. Good ? .
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Chamilitary Mayne!
I've been keeping up with his business moves. He's always been a smart guy. -
I never ? with his music i liked him. As a person
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Bill O'Reilly somewhere is hating
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Koopa stay making moves, I don't even know if he is really concerned with music anymore
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"He's also been making some investments himself. He was one of the earliest investors in Maker Studios, an online video network founded in 2009 and sold to Disney for $500 million last year"
Good move, if true.
Never felt his music but liked what I heard from interviews.
Them no revenues but huge valuation companies can turn you into an overnight millionaire. -
Michael_Malice wrote: »That's dope. Good for Cham. I want another Mixtape Messiah tho.
He's getting Venture Capital money. ? making a mix tape.
I'm proud of him. I remember when he lost his house. -
That's a gooood look for him, dayum I'm impressed and happy for him. He'll make more money there than any position he could be in within the music industry. Seems to me that he's found his calling. Shout outs to him for hanging out with Master P, nice to see the game rubbed off on him.
Good video too, very uplifting, Houston get it in, I respect him.
Be careful with the tech business tho, very easy to lose all of your loot if you're not careful.
Why is the tech industry real volatile?
Only in a sense that you always need three more capital then you think.you need. The key is to have a buffer of cash.
I'm currently working on some apps now.
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Good for him, he still looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle tho.
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Get yo money my ? . Cham, Slim Thug,etc always struck me as smart ? .
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Gettin that paper
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It's the name they say is runnin the game.
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grew up on Cham being from Dallas so I've seen the progression.....I was more a fan of his music from 98-2005 but I always felt he had talent....he's always been a smart ? from the early Swisha House and ccc days. I saw some old interviews a few years ago where he was talking about tech conferences.....I didn't know where he was going with it all but it's clear now. I'm glad this story broke, this is the type of ? that needs to be in the forefront of hiphop as well....I'm proud dude is from my state....
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