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Jason Calacanis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 28, 1970

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

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I find podcasting an enticing space.

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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.

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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

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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.

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Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

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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.

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Food is the new health care.

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I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

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I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.

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I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

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The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'

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Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

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It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.

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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.

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No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

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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.

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I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

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YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.

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