Quotes from Jason Calacanis

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Average people push great people out of a company.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.