Jason Calacanis: Silicon Valley v the media

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jason Calacanis, to talk about the de-platfroming of Trump (4:45), the revelation that is Trump-less Twitter (9:15), Silicon Valley v the media (12:15), the editing process (17:30), his term “late-stage journalism” (19:50), subscriptions and popularity (23:25), the direction of journalism (28:00), the increased scrutiny of Big Tech (30:30), free agent journalists (34:15), Twitter v Clubhouse (36:30), and Robinhood (41:45).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.4	I think people are starting to realize that they're going to have to roll their own truth and do their own research and not believe anybody and just triangulate around the truth.
0:26.7	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:30.5	Greetings and happy Friday to everyone.
0:33.3	I hope you're all doing fabulously well.
0:37.4	I am fine, but I'm feeling positive.
0:38.2	I feel like even with all the terrible COVID news,
0:41.8	there's actually also some great news.
0:43.4	The mass vaccination campaigns are really starting to ramp up.
0:47.4	My parents just got their first shots this weekend.
0:50.9	You can just start to see the outlines of something,
0:53.2	and I'm not going to say kind of back to normal,
0:55.3	but something that looks a lot better than today,
0:59.2	which is everybody hold up in their houses,
1:01.3	banging their heads against a wall going crazy,
1:03.3	and, you know, some people will be losing loved ones,
1:05.9	getting very sick, et cetera.
1:07.1	It feels like hopefully maybe we can start to see a corner that we're going to
1:12.0	turn. But anyway, I hope, my hope is that this podcast provides a welcome distraction from the
1:19.1	monotony. And I am certain that this week's episode will do just that. On the program, we have
1:26.2	Jason Calcanus, a repeat offender here. Now, Jason, of course,
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