Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The Striking Writers and the Striking Lack of Web Hits
Why does the idea of a marriage between Hollywood writers and VCs make me slightly queasy?
But that’s just the feeling I got when I read the always sharp Joseph Menn of the Los Angeles Times, who penned an interesting piece earlier this week about writers in Hollywood turning to venture capitalists as the strike drags on.
Wrote Menn: “At least seven groups, composed of members of the striking Writers Guild of America, are planning to form Internet-based businesses that, if successful, could create an alternative economic model to the one at the heart of the walkout, now in its seventh week.”
That includes meetings with Silicon Valley VCs like Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, whose investment in Facebook gives it insight into the creation of new audiences.
The hope for the–let’s just say it, shall we–unnatural pairing of tech VCs and Hollywood folks?
