Calacanis Jason Quotes & Sayings

Art is an adventure that never seems to end. — Jason Calacanis

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life. — Jason Calacanis

I learned from my past. — Jason Calacanis

Google indexes the world's information. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

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. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling. — Jason Calacanis

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow. — Jason Calacanis

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power. — Jason Calacanis

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people? — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive. — Jason Calacanis

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

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

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves. — Jason Calacanis

When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo. — Jason Calacanis

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech. — Jason Calacanis

I find podcasting an enticing space. — Jason Calacanis

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

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. — Jason Calacanis

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

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. — Jason Calacanis

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. — Jason Calacanis

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there. — Jason Calacanis

Food is the new health care. — Jason Calacanis

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

Longevity is a big part of credibility. — Jason Calacanis

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful. — Jason Calacanis

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money. — Jason Calacanis

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby. — Jason Calacanis

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

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

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there. — Jason Calacanis

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you. — Jason Calacanis

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

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

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times. — Jason Calacanis

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation. — Jason Calacanis

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

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

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible. — Jason Calacanis

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. — Jason Calacanis

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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.' — Jason Calacanis

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

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing. — Jason Calacanis

Average people push great people out of a company. — Jason Calacanis

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe. — Jason Calacanis

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.' — Jason Calacanis

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc. — Jason Calacanis

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

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real — Jason Calacanis

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley. — Jason Calacanis

People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America. — Jason Calacanis

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

Fire people who are not workaholics. — Jason Calacanis

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring. — Jason Calacanis

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber. — Jason Calacanis

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

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense. — Jason Calacanis

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product — Jason Calacanis

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things. — Jason Calacanis

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

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging. — Jason Calacanis

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. — Jason Calacanis

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

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average. — Jason Calacanis