A biography for Jason Calacanishasn’t been written yet.
“I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.”
“TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.”
“The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.”
“The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.”
“Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.”
“For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.”
“The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'”
“Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.”
“I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.”
“I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.”
“I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.”
“YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.”
“What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.”
“The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.”
“Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.”
“No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.”