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ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

Acquired

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Investing in Silicon Valley VC and Jerry Kelowna

Fred became ultimately my deep mentor at that time and Fred said to be listen you're doing silicon our reporter you're writing about us and the companies we're investing in. I was 27 years old and I didn't know anything about how to run a magazine how to run ansel I taught myself everything what did your family think of this like it was pretty heady stuff. He wound up being on the cover of the New York Times on Charlie Rose and they wrote a feature story made about me for eight thousand words in the New Yorker so anyways a really cool time in New York because at that time you were either in media or finance or art publishing it was like a spry night set.

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