She's Baaack: Joanna Rees Says She May Run For Mayor of San Francisco
Joanna Rees -- whose San Francisco-based firm, VSP Capital, famously imploded several years ago -- was never a shrinking violet, and apparently, she still craves the spotlight. After what she considered unfair treatment by the media as VSP was crumbling -- she invited her married boyfriend into the firm as a partner without disclosing the relationship to VSP's other partners; three of VSP's general partners subsequently resigned; and the firm's LPs voted to pull the plug on its third and last fund -- she tells VentureBeat's Matt Marshall that she now has her eye on the SF mayor’s office. If Rees is serious about running for mayor of San Francisco, I say: good luck. But my suspicion is that Rees's sit-down with Marshall, who remarks that Rees's career "shows remarkable persistence and grit," is largely a publicity stunt intended to clear her name in Silicon Valley.
