Ashton Kutcher Rejects Kanye West

Kanye West has been trying to get in good graces with the tech savvy Ashton Kutcher, whose got major connections in Silicon Valley and has made millions off funding startup companies, but Kutcher wants nothing to do with him, Dish Nation has exclusively learned.
“Kanye is determined to make his creative agency Donda bigger than Apple, and he’s been prowling for investors for the last couple of years,” a source close to the situation dished.
“The only problem is that nobody, including Ashton, really understands what Donda is. Kanye promotes it as a huge deal but doesn’t know how to articulate what it is. He’s had his people reach out to Ashton a number of times to arrange a meeting, but Ashton isn’t impressed with him in the least.”
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In January, 2012, West, 37, announced that he created Donda, named after his late mother. At the time, he admitted that his vision of the 22+ division company was “to dream of, create, advertise, and produce products driven equally by emotional want and utilitarian need… To marry our wants and needs.”
Since then, “his work has centered around clothing and artistic ventures, including album cover designs, but Kanye hasn’t been able to conquer the tech world like he wants,” the source told Dish.
“Kanye has been very outspoken about Steve Jobs being his icon — he wants to be as successful as Steve Jobs, but he’s got a long way to go before that happens,” the insider added.
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Kutcher, 36 — who co-founded his capital investment firm A-Grade Investments — has invested nearly $100 million in start-up companies. His latest investment is Taptalk, a program similar to Snapchat, which allows you to send self-destructing videos and pictures to others.
One of the actor’s first investments was Foursquare and in 2009 he invested in Skype, which Microsoft later bought for more than $8 million. Ashton reportedly tripled his money. In 2011, he invested in Airbnb, which has since grown to one of the most popular vacation rental booking companies. He also invested in music streaming service Spotify, and in 2013 he put money into the events app YPlan.
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“Ashton thinks that Kanye should stick to music and fashion,” the insider mocked.
“Just because he’s wealthy and eager doesn’t mean he can dive into the tech industry. The problem with Kanye is he isn’t smart enough to invest in other companies, like Ashton does, but he thinks that he is such a creative genius that he only wants his own ideas to be funded.”
Kim Kardashian‘s hubby thinks his name and reputation is enough for investors — but not when it comes to Silicon Valley.
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“He basically wants high-end investors to invest in him, which Ashton would never do,” the source told Dish.
“Given Kanye’s shaky reputation, he would need a really good sales pitch and be able to guarantee Ashton a very large sum of money in order for Ashton to help invest in anything and bring his Silicon Valley executives on board.
“At this point, Kanye is just a joke to Ashton, like he is to most people.”