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    He was a young tech entrepreneur, and Kanye West wanted to partner with him. What could go wrong?

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Nov 18, 2022 5 minutes
    Kanye West attends the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA on Nov. 6, 2019, in New York.

    Alex Klein's tech inventions have passed through the hands of some of the most powerful people in government, music and business. Barack Obama, Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have all touted the 32-year-old Londoner's music-creation devices, personal computers and software. This year, his company, Kano, launched a sand-dollar-shaped digital music player that he hoped would become both a transformational new way to listen to music and a distribution platform.

    One particular fan of Kano's Stem Player, however, has vexed Klein. Kanye West, the artist who now performs as Ye, released his latest album, "Donda 2," exclusively on the Stem Player in February. It first looked like a coup for Klein's company — a futuristic iPod/DJ booth/sculpture, packaged with

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