Burton: Silicon Valley VCs gave the Reading Rainbow app 'no love'
LeVar Burton · The case for bootstrapping (with Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut) · Nov 30, 2021 · at 2:25
Actor and educator LeVar Burton discusses pitching venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to fund the Reading Rainbow digital app.
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“We got no love from Silicon Valley. I mean, no love.”
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