Jason Calacanis Quotes

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Jason Calacanis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 28, 1970

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.

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The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

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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.

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While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

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Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

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The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

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Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

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If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

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Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

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Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

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If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

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Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

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Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.

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The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.

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The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

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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.

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I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

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Google indexes the world's information.

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Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

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I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

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