Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Invest In Kanye West After $1-Billion Plea?
While Facebook chairman and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has yet to formally respond to rapper/fashion designer/entrepreneur Kanye West's plea for a billion-dollar investment, he does appear to have at least "liked" the request.
"Mark Zuckerberg invest 1 billion dollars into Kanye West ideas," the recording artist tweeted on Valentine's Day, the same day his seventh studio album, "The Life of Pablo," was released. A few days beforehand, West showed his Yeezy Season 3 collection on the first day of New York Fashion Week. Although it was a big week for reality star Kim Kardashian's other half, the back-to-back creative outputs must have put a major dent on his bank account.
On Saturday, Feb. 13, West went on a bizarre Twitter rant in which he claimed that he was "53 million dollars in personal debt." On Monday, Feb. 15, he also publicly begged two of the world's richest CEOs, Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Larry Page, to invest in him, "the greatest living artist and greatest artist of all time."
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He even went so far as to leave Zuckerberg this message: "Mark Zuckerberg I know it's your bday but can you please call me by 2mrw…"
According to Complex, in response to the rapper's Twitter spree, software engineer Steve Grimm, who used to work for Facebook, posted a Kanye West meme as his Facebook status. It reads, "Dear Kanye West: If you're going to ask the CEO of Facebook for a billion dollars, maybe don't do it on Twitter. (Credit: Annika Goodman)."
According to the magazine, which has pictures of Grimm's Facebook post, the Facebook boss actually "liked" the post before it was deleted from Grimm's account. This, perhaps, proves that Zuckerberg actually read West's plea and may have been just as amused or perplexed by it as the rest of the Internet was. It's now anybody's guess whether or not Zuckerberg, or Page, for that matter, will give the rapper what he needs to express his creative genius.
