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Calacanis: US rules will let non-accredited gig workers invest in startups
“We're going to see some regulation in the United States where people are going to be able to be sophisticated investors, In other words, maybe they don't have the accreditation benchmark of whatever it is, a 152 100,000 a year in revenue of, in you know, incom…”
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 …”
Calacanis: Asana Has Built a Much Bigger Business Than Basecamp
“I forgot the name of it because it's no longer the biggest player in that space. Like there's other people like Asana who've built like much bigger businesses, but you know, they decided they wanted to build a profitable lifestyle business.”
Calacanis predicts Masayoshi Son will deliver very good returns for LPs
“Masayoshi-san is the last person in, and I think he'll ultimately wind up looking smart, because he picked some good companies, and I think he'll ultimately wind up having a very good return for his LPs”
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…”
Calacanis: Uber Seed Round Paid Off 4,000x to 5,000x
“So an outlier like an Uber, for the people who are in the seed round, paid off somewhere in the range of 4000 to 5000 X, not percent, X.”
Calacanis: Probable He Hits Another 300x to 1,000x Return
“Now, will I ever hit another one? It's probable that I will not. But will I hit another 300 X, 500 X, 1000 X? It's probable I will if I keep up at this pace.”