Jason Calacanis
17 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 14, 2020 by Jason Calacanis · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Apr 14, 2020 negative
Apr 14, 2020 negative
Calacanis: Accredited investor rules harm poor people by blocking high-upside bets
“The accreditation rules and the fact that our economic system is designed to protect people who are poor by not letting them take risk. That's noble, but it's wrong in today's society. The people who need to take risks and make bets That could have 200 X outco…”
Apr 14, 2020
Calacanis: Raising stakes breaks opponents' composure, making them predictably tight
“And that's why you'll see the really good players try to kick up the stakes constantly because at a certain point, people's brains, you know, like kind of tick over and break and they're like, oh my God, this is a lot of money. And once you have somebody think…”
Apr 14, 2020 bullish
Calacanis: No-code tools will enable 20% of people to build products
“I think we're going to see the pool of people who can build a product go from like, call it low single digits, four or five percent of the country. Or even the world, young people starting companies, old people starting companies, I think it's going to grow to…”
Apr 14, 2020
Calacanis was invited to Molly Bloom's celebrity poker games in Los Angeles
“I was invited to all the Molly, Molly's games in LA, because I was living there at the time, and she used to invite me to all these games, and be like, at the Four Seasons, oh, Leo's here, and Toby's here, and they really want to see you, and I was like, they …”
Apr 14, 2020 bullish
Apr 14, 2020 negative
Calacanis: Tim Cook should not be CEO of Apple anymore
“If a company is storing a bunch of capital and paying you a dividend, that signals to us that you are not a bold and ambitious founder, and this is one of the big problems I have with Apple and Tim Cook, which, who I don't think should be CEO of that company a…”
Apr 14, 2020 positive
Calacanis: Launch Gets Higher-Traction Startups at Decade-Old Seed Valuations
“So we're finding ourselves investing later in the companies at the same price that we paid 10 years ago for companies that had not yet launched or had less traction, and frankly, maybe didn't look on the outside as polished.”
Apr 14, 2020 positive
Apr 14, 2020 neutral
Calacanis: Seed Startups Are Experiments Until Hitting $500K Revenue
“And because I changed my perception of investing at the earliest stage, you know, I'm talking when the company's two, three, four, five people, and they've got the product in market for two, three, four weeks or months, I look at these as experiments. When the…”
Apr 14, 2020
Calacanis: Founders Quitting Is the Top Reason Startups Fail
“That is the number one killer of startups, is people quitting. If you are betting on somebody to take on a major, majorly difficult task, the number one killer is that they give up. At some point, they tap out. And most people think it's because the company ru…”
Apr 14, 2020 neutral
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Apr 14, 2020 negative
Calacanis: Work-life balance advocates do not understand how startups work
“These businesses take a level of focus and commitment that is otherworldly. Like, the fact that people are Even talking about life work balance, and oh, you know, you can have life work balance, and that's what's important in life, like, these are people who d…”
Apr 14, 2020 negative
Calacanis: Founders with side projects will not succeed in their primary startup
“If you ask a founder, like, what else you're working on? Like, oh, I have a nonprofit and I'm doing a conference and my podcast and this and that. It's like, okay, well, they're not going to be successful at what they're doing. I mean, unless it's a podcasting…”