Damon Dash looks to cash in on the social networking craze
Business 2.0 columnist John Heilemann talks with music impresario Damon Dash about his new social networking venture
The real driving force behind BlockSavvy, in fact, isn’t either Dash or Burke. It’s a young Web designer, Kwame DeCuir, who was Dash’s technical consultant on his BET reality show Ultimate Hustler. Trained in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, DeCuir was likewise struck by the success of MySpace — especially since, as he says, “I wasn’t too impressed with their technology, and they had no real business model.” So he set out to create something better and persuaded Dash and Burke to back him.
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