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
Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.
Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.
Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.
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.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
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 wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.