I think Kanye has the sheer talent and connections to build the Y Combinator for the music industry. The more fundamental problem is portfolio construction. It

I think Kanye has the sheer talent and connections to build the Y Combinator for the music industry. The more fundamental problem is portfolio construction. It is hard to invest in early-career artists on friendly deal terms because the top-performing catalogs are maybe only 1/1000 as financially successful as the top-performing YC companies. I've written about this in more depth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528099