Jason Calacanis Quotes

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Jason Calacanis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 28, 1970

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

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I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

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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.

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You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

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I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

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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.

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Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.

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In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

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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.

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Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'

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I learned from my past.

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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.

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Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

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After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

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You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

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When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

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To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

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My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

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The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

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