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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.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 42:17 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
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Calacanis avoids ultra-high-stakes poker to prevent money from altering his gameplay
“And that's why I've always loved to play well below my means and not have the amount of money Change the way I play, and I opt out of, like, very big games.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 5:42 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
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Calacanis: Launch invested early in Ruby Love doing $250k monthly revenue on $50k raised
“We had one business come to us, it's called Ruby Love. And they had like a quarter million dollars in revenue one month, and we were like, how much have you raised? They're like, 50. And I was like, fifty million? And, or 500,000? And I thought I heard it wron…”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 39:29 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
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Calacanis: Still holds Uber shares, sold some to Masayoshi Son
“Full disclosure, I still have a lot of shares. I sold some of my position to Masayoshi-san.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 46:57 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
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Calacanis: LAUNCH invests $100k for 6% and seeks another 10% follow-on
“So we bet a 100,000 dollars for six percent of companies when they come to our accelerator. And we hang out with them for 12 weeks. If those experiments really go well, then we try to buy another 10% of those companies.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 52:37 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
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Calacanis: Launch hosted 13 to 14 Founder University cohorts, half for women and transgender people
“We've done it 13 or 14 times, and about half of them are for women only. And also transgender people.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 35:18 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
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