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3 Feb, 2010

Offers Tesla Model S

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Calacanis talks about his offer to give one of the first Model S’s to someone who can get his handle, @Auto, to the top user spot on Twitter, in a stunt to raise publicity about Mahalo:

I am a huge fan of electric cars, I am a huge opponent of our Middle East policy…Tesla are the only company with an electric car on the road in production

Jason Calacanis wants to give you a Tesla Model S - Part 1

6 Jan, 2014

Intruders TV interview

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Calacanis talks about how Peter Rojas pioneered live-blogging at Engadget, and says Mahalo is effectively applying the technique to the rest of the world:

Jason Calacanis on Mahalo Liveblog and a lot more...

13 Aug, 2009

SES San Jose interview

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Calacanis talks with John Mulligan of SEO-PR about how iPhone users have dissonance between the fact that their device does what it does perfectly, but is limited in its functions, and has hurdles in the way of experimental apps and migration to other mobile networks:

The iPhone is the greatest consumer device ever made. I think we can all agree on that. It is the Holy Grail of computing right now. It’s got a beautiful form factor, it’s fast now that they’ve got the new processor in it, and it’s just wonderful to use with the multi-touch and whatnot — however, I think that it is locked down like a cell phone or a mobile phone, but it’s acting like a computer. That’s creating some dissonance for me, and, I know, some other users.

Jason Calacanis takes on his iPhone in a jailbreaky deathmatch at SES San Jose 2009

3 Nov, 2010

FOWA London interview

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Calacanis talks at the Future Of Web Apps event about his experience with Silicon Alley Reporter, Netscape, Sequoia, and others, saying that he had many great experiences but also difficulties along the way:

That’s how I became a great CEO, thanks to all the hardships

FOWA London 2010 - Interview with Jason Calacanis (Part 1 of 2)

1 May, 2013

Wants to run Twitter, YouTube, and more

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For the Pando Daily CEO Supper Club, Calacanis talks to Sarah Lacy about the tech companies he wants to run:

Twitter I think is going to be more valuable than Facebook… I think [Facebook] is a very faddy trend.

He says the filling out the social graph offers no rewards, and is useless.

Jason Calacanis: I want to run Youtube, Twitter, and more

27 Dec, 2014

Suicide drone test

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iran-suicide-drone-testThe unmanned aircraft is tested in military drills near the Strait of Hormuz. It can carry out 360-degree imaging and is designed to strike air, ground and naval targets. An Iranian military official calls it a ‘mobile bomb’ while media refer to it using the name Yasir.

12 Apr, 2010

Jihad against pay-to-demonstrate

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Calacanis talks with Mary Kathleen Flynn of The Deal about how Open Angel solves the problem of paying to demonstrate:

Pretty simply we’re destroying the other events…those people I’m on a jihad against, I’m destroying them

He says charging $5,000 to demonstrate is a scam and that people who charge are preying on the desperateness of entrepreneurs.

Jason Calacanis' jihad against angel payola

5 May, 2008

Ask Palpatine

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The Sith emperor interviews Calacanis about Mahalo.com. Calacanis:

This battle station is not fully operational yet, so excuse the sneakers and whatnot in the background

Ask Palpatine 17 - Interview with Jason Calacanis

12 May, 2010

Carpool interview

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Llewellyn, formerly of Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, and Fully Charged, interviews Calacanis while giving him a lift to work. Calacanis about why he lives in San Francisco:

I fell in love with the city, and fell in love with the women. That’s about the only reason anyone would leave New York, the greatest city in the world – for a woman.

Jason Calacanis | Carpool

5 Jun, 2013

Talks about Tumblr acquisition

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Calacanis explains the numbers behind Yahoo’s acquisition:

It turns out, there’s a lot of money in the world. The money is bored. Money wants to be spent! Money is intended to be gambled. These are big numbers, but these are big companies.

Jason Calacanis on the Tumblr acquisition by Yahoo

17 Oct, 2014

TWiST – Tinder etiquette

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Calacanis, Sarver, and Hoover talk on This Week In Startups about etiquette on the dating app. Calacanis:

Are you on the Tinder with all those other kids?

Hoover:

I had my first Tinder date, like, a month ago

Calacanis:

You really went on a Tinder date. What’s that like?

Hoover:

It was normal. She was fine.

Jason Calacanis learns Tinder etiquette from Ryan Hoover and Ryan Sarver

22 Nov, 2013

Dark career moments

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Calacanis talks with Lacy about how his career has been driven by his father’s failed efforts at entrepreneurship as a bar and restaurant owner and how he has felt the need to prove something to his parents:

I think I was also proving it to myself

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Z5gBW–2c

17 Mar, 2008

Neil Patel interview

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Calacanis and Patel talk about issues like spam, the search engine optimization (SEO) philosophy as a whole and its problematic frictions between publishers and users in the battle for visibility and search relevance, and his search company, Mahalo.com:

[Mahalo.com] is sort of a search engine but of course there’s no engine, the engine is people…and it’s not all of a content company so you can’t call it Wikipedia…what it’s best described as is somewhere between Wikipedia and Google or Yahoo

Neil Patel interviews Jason Calacanis, SES NY 2008

22 Nov, 2013

Investment strategy

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Sarah Lacy talks with Calacanis about how he managed to succeed as an acquired taste despite being fairly abrasive, and his investment strategy going forward:

PandoMonthly: Jason Calacanis' investment strategy

21 Sep, 2007

The internet’s environmental crisis

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Calacanis talks at Gnomedex about how the pollution of the internet by spammers is creating an environmental crisis:

The internet was synonymous with good things, and intelligence, and freedom, and now it’s synonymous with spamming, and phishing, and I think we’ve let this happen a little bit, and we’ve been complacent

Jason Calacanis: The Internet's Environmental Crisis