Jason McCabe Calacanis
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Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine and the co-founder and CEO of ThisWeekIn, an Internet television network. Prior to Mahalo.com's launch in May, 2007, he was an "Entrepreneur in Action" at Sequoia Capital, a position he held since December 2006.

Jason co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL's Netscape.

Prior to forming Weblogs Inc., Jason was the founder of Rising Tide Studios, which sold its flagship publication to Dow Jones.

Jason is also an angel investor or advisor in the following companies: Frequency, Blippy, BCKYRD, GDGT, Backupify, SignPost, Datastax, Rapportive, Gowalla, ChallengePost, Chartbeat, ubermedia, Jibe, SmartyPants, StorkBrokers, Thumbtack, CauseCast, Savings, ThisWeekIn, FamilyFinds, LAUNCH, Uber, Groundcrew, Belgrave Trust, Hashable and Wanderfly.

Blog Entries by Jason McCabe Calacanis

By the Way, What Have You Done That's So Great?

10 Comments | Posted October 6, 2011 | 19:05:45 (EST)

1. Unrelenting attention to detail.

2. Impeccable taste.

3. Indefatigable passion.

4. Absolute conviction.

5. Unwavering vision.

6. Boundless curiosity.

7. Mercurial motivator.

One or two of these will help you make a living. Three or four of these will make you successful. Four of five of these will make...

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Be the 1%: Chamath, Airbnb, Occupy Wall Street and the Choice Millennials Should Make

181 Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 10:36:49 (EST)

Last week my old AOL friend Chamath, who is now the hottest VC in Silicon Valley, unintentionally took a stand against, essentially, the way the Gen-Y founders of Airbnb were pulling $20M out of their startup.

At the same time thousands of the disenfranchised -- from fatigued Marines in fatigues...

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The 120% Solution

Posted December 4, 2008 | 00:55:58 (EST)

Reprinted with permission from Jason's email list

Many intelligent people I've been speaking with believe that the economic crisis facing our country today is our biggest challenge since America's inception. Intelligent folks can argue the relative risks we faced when confronted with the Civil War, Great Depression, Vietnam, two...

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On Bailouts and Sports Cars

Posted November 30, 2008 | 18:36:33 (EST)

Reprinted with permission from Jason's email list

Today, Randall Stross takes apart Tesla Motors' request for a $400m government loan in an illogical, factually incorrect editorial that screams of a "Kill The Affluent!" ethos that spreads every time the market crashes. Putting aside the issue of bailouts--which many...

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