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
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.
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.
It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.
Unfortunately, it is a documentary and not a drama.
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.
I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.
I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.