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Jason Calacanis

10 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2022 by Jason Calacanis · said 10 times in 8 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jul 28, 2022
Disclosure
Calacanis bought Bitcoin at $2–$3 and $100–$200
“I bought Bitcoin at like two or three dollars, and then again at a 102 hundred dollars.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 3:31 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Calacanis bought 5,000 Stitch Fix shares after Bill Gurley's purchase
“I saw Bill Gurley buy a million shares. I know Bill Gurley. He's really smart. He's been with the company forever. Bill Gurley's buying a million shares. Sure. I'll buy my, I bought 5000 shares.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 38:36 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022
Insight
Calacanis: Angel investors should only back revenue-generating companies for first 20 deals
“Like I literally tell people only invest in companies that have products in market and have revenue for your first 20 investments as an angel.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 27:36 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022
Disclosure
Calacanis: Henry Blodget offered me 5% of Insider and I passed
“Yeah, which used to be Silicon Alley Insider, and you offered me five percent of it because I had Silicon Alley Reporter magazine, and I said, nah, you know, just keep it.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 35:41 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: All-In Summit made a couple hundred thousand in profit
“It sells out. It makes a couple million bucks, you know, a couple 100,000 dollars in profit. It could have made millions in profit, but we gave half the tickets to the fans at a loss.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 57:13 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Calacanis commits $1M to $2M to learn public equity trading
“The way I'm looking at the million or two million dollars I'm gonna put into J trading is that's to get me the edge. That's my MBA.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 53:13 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022
Insight
Calacanis: Founder charisma can be faked, great products cannot
“You can become really inspired by a founder and they're, they've been trained on how to be charismatic. Now they've kind of unpacked what charisma is. And how to sort of fake it. So it's quite theatrical at times. But you can't fake a great product. You can't …”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 44:08 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Calacanis: All-In hosts agreed to an equal 25% equity split
“And then we just decided, fuck it. We'll just make it a podcast every week. No more events. None of this bullshit. And we'll just own a 25% each.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 58:20 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
Jul 28, 2022
Disclosure
Calacanis: LAUNCH averages 70 meetings and two investments per week
“I have 11, I think 10 or 11 people on the investment team at launch. Now we do about 70 meetings a week, probably 50, 60 of them are introductory meetings. And we invest in two companies a week on average. And one of them tends to be a follow on one tends to b…”
Jason Calacanis Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 41:53 How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
May 10, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Jason Calacanis invested in three Swell AI competitors that will all fail
“Jason Calacanis has invested in like three companies that are like exact competitors of us. And we're just laughing because I was like how many tap bats can you get with this? It's not going to work.”
Cody Schneider May 10, 2024 ▶ 26:00 A few $30k+/month startup ideas from the most manic/genius founder you've never heard of
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