Special Episode: Jason Calacanis

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by the one and only Jason Calacanis for this very special episode, wherein we chronicle Jason's journey from a kid porter in the barrooms of Brooklyn to building the largest independent media business in tech, becoming the "3rd or 4th greatest seed investor of all-time" (and the original Sequoia Scout), launching one of the top accelerators in the world, and constructing a one-man empire that may just disrupt the entire capital stack in our industry. We dive into how it all ties together, and where the money and power is shifting in the ever changing sands of Silicon Valley...

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0:00.0	Let me just make a little out here.
0:01.0	Yeah, please.
0:01.6	Hi, this is Jason Callicanus for acquired.
0:04.2	FM.
0:04.9	Is that the domain?
0:05.6	Acquired.
0:06.6	That is it.
0:07.6	All right, listen.
0:08.6	You're listening to this.
0:09.6	You're either a founder, an aspiring founder, an investor, or an aspiring investor. For $100 a year, you're
0:18.0	going to get hours of content that's not available to everybody else. That's also
0:21.7	known as an edge. You are in a competition with
0:24.7	other investors, you're in a competition with other founders. You need an edge. If I
0:29.0	could tell you you you get one, two, three good insights a year, even one, would you pay $100 for an amazing insight
0:35.5	that gave you an edge against your competitors?
0:37.0	Of course you would you pay $10,000.
0:39.3	So why wouldn't you pay $100?
0:41.0	Because it's content?
0:42.3	You're thinking about it the wrong way. The LP program
0:45.3	at acquired fm is not it's not content it's an edge and it's an underpriced edge so
0:52.1	buy it for a hundred now before they raise the price to what it should be, which is 5,000 a year.
0:57.0	This is Jason Galcalfa, required. F.M.
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