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
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.
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.
After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.
Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.
I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.
Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.
If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.
My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.