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Special Episode: Jason Calacanis

Apr 29, 2020

01:36:09

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Investing in the Early Stage of an Angel Investor's Success

05:55

The World Series of Poker - The Only Way to Get a Symmetrical Upside in Poker

02:39

I'm a Complete Fraud, and a Handful Think I'm Brilliant Hip Man

02:55

Introduction

2min

The One and Only Jason Calicanus

2min

I'm a Complete Fraud, and a Handful Think I'm Brilliant Hip Man

3min

Growing Up in a Bar

2min

I'm a Cop, and I'm in a Pub, and I'll Have a Cup of Coffee.

4min

Match Poker Patterns Informed by Yes

5min

I Was Onky Dow in the Early Days of the Internet, and I Was a Criminal.

3min

I'm a Street Salesman With a Stack of Photocopies

5min

What's Going Through Your Minds?

2min

10.

I'm Not a Fraud, but I'll Come Back

3min

11.

I'm Going to Destroy Nick Denton A

4min

12.

The Sky Promised You Equity and You've Done Nothin

4min

13.

You Know, I'm Proposing a Jasen of Respect, Respect for What You Did There

2min

14.

The Little Leaf of the Apple

2min

15.

Silcana Reporter Crashing and Burning

2min

16.

Ahollo, Pounce, Twitter. And Davyi Keep Running With Your Your Line Here

2min

17.

How Do You Meet Travis Calanic?

2min

18.

How Did You Go From Eleven to a Hundred Million Dollar Valuation?

3min

19.

I Started the Thing Open Angel for Him, and I Tried to Kill Someing Caled Korez for Him

2min

20.

I'm a Hollo Mahollo, I've Got an Idea for a Company.

2min

21.

Dot Net and Comprehensive Search - What's Yours?

5min

22.

Is It a Scout's Thing?

7min

23.

Ike Ronaco Isopdill and Not Like Ady Better

5min

24.

I'm Going to Go Full Bore on Twitter

5min

25.

The World Series of Poker - The Only Way to Get a Symmetrical Upside in Poker

3min

26.

Investing in the Early Stage of an Angel Investor's Success

6min

27.

You Can Get Signalling, if You Want to Reduce the Pain You're Going to Go Through

9min

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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