Calacanis bootstrapped Silicon Alley Reporter to $10M revenue by age 27
Jason Calacanis · ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired · Oct 4, 2022 · at 11:17
Angel investor Jason Calacanis describes scaling his 1990s dot-com publishing business, Silicon Alley Reporter, in New York.
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“I grew that business to ten million dollars in revenue off my credit cards and Had a, 75 to a hundred people working for me when I was 27 years old, and I didn't know anything about how to run a magazine, how to run Edsels.”
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