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
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.
Since the number has been stated as not out of line it sounds like someone is trying to play this down.
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
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.
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.
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.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
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.
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.
As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.