Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanisis an American Internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., a publishing company that he co-founded together with Brian Alvey, capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL. As well as being an angel investor in various technology startups, Calacanis also keynotes industry conferences worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.
CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.
AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.
This is a speculative space and no one has made it work yet. So there is a lot of work to do. Frankly, I'm not sure how many of these we'll do We're going to see how this one goes and grow from there.
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.
I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.
No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.