A biography for Jason Calacanishasn’t been written yet.
“Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.”
“Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.”
“Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.”
“I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.”
“America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.”
“The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.”
“That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.”
“Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.”
“If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.”
“Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.”
“Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.”
“If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.”
“These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.”
“When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'”
“Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.”
“I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.”
“People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?”
“My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.”
“You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.”
“I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.”