Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL.
Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).
Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).
2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010.
3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com.
4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer.
5. This Week in Startups about to have it's one-year anniversary and advertising has been sold out for two years. Also, ThisWeekIn.com is closing a small angel round and have almost 10 shows.
6. ON the board of Savings.com, GDGT and another company not yet announced.
I'd list ten more things... but it would start to get a little silly.
I'm getting a lot done these days, but you are correct I'm far from graceful. I'm blunt and to the point... sometimes I say things in private, or public, that I shouldn't.
A private thing that should have stayed private is now public. Yawn. There is more to the story, but I'm not going to comment HR issues publicly--that would not be professional. Part of me would love to unload however.
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Funny... Sam Odio thought the same thing.
http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who...
2. good for you
3. The only one I've heard of is 'blippy', and that's only because of some fairly sloppy coding there.
4. great. I'm fairly sure they would have made it without your personal contribution though, you can't possibly take personal credit for that, just like Paul Graham doesn't take personal credit for dropbox or any one of the other YC investments.
And so on. The list would indeed be silly if you continued.
You're one hell of an entrepreneur, I'll give you that but you're way out of line in how you treat people and the basic business model of mahalo simply sucks.
Do you really believe that even if such email should stay private that that absolves you of what you wrote there?
I used to look up to you, that has changed dramatically in the last 18 months or so.
It's been an ongoing thing, mostly related to his company being pretty spammy, but there are other episodes mixed in as well: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+cal...
... and we've reached the Godwin point!
(considering Fascism as a proxy for Nazism)
Agreed.
Being a part of something bigger than yourself is something to be proud of. I'm a part of a lot of teams and organizations and while I don't credit for their success (or failures) I might point to them as evidence that I'm at least keeping busy. Promoting startups is a noble endeavor as far as I'm concerned. I'm very inspired by how many people want to encourage people who want to start something of their own. It's something anyone who does it should be proud of.
'You have done nothing' 'I did XYZ' 'Stop promoting yourself. The work should speak for itself'
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There's something to be proud of.....
Still, your business, your rules.