100: Jason Calacanis | Advice from the Most Successful Angel Investor
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Jason Calacanis (@Jason) is Silicon Valley royalty, the most successful angel investor today, and author of Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups -- Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000.
What We Discuss with Jason Calacanis:- What venture capitalists are looking for in startup founders.
- How Jason bounced back after losing everything (something to which we can personally relate).
- How to make yourself more marketable, whether you're a founder or an angel investor yourself.
- What Jason considers "the greatest skill of all."
- The impersonations Jason can do to make your blood run cold when you're miles away from any semblance of civilization.
- And much more...
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| 0:53.0 | Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason to Phillipo. It's episode 100. All right. |
| 0:58.9 | We made it this far. What do you think, Jason? Amazing. It's been a long ride so far. It has. It's |
| 1:04.9 | been a long ride. It's been an interesting new beginning. I personally kind of feel better |
| 1:11.1 | than ever, but we still have a long way to go. That's where I'm at with it. Well, there's no end |
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| 1:20.1 | All right. So episode 100, we ran this one live in front of a crowd in a live studio audience, |
| 1:27.1 | or not studio audience live forest audience at fireside in Canada. Jason Callicanis is one of the |
| 1:34.6 | best known angel investors. He was one of the first investors in Uber. He sold one of the first |
| 1:39.8 | blogging networks to AOL and is generally considered Silicon Valley royalty. He's also the author of |
| 1:45.4 | a book called Angel. How to invest in technology startups. Timeless advice from an angel investor |
| 1:50.8 | who turned a hundred grand into a hundred million dollars. And I think he's way over that now, of course. |
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