Jason Calacanis 
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Viral Video: In Which I Am Impressed by the Jazz Hands of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer
Sparkle, Internet execs, sparkle!Saying No to YouTube
Every time you invest $1 in YouTube, you’re building their power base and leverage over you.
— Jason Calacanis, from an email explaining why he turned down additional funding from YouTube
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“Hands-Off”: The Impossible Promise
Inside Yahoo, Tumblr will be caught in the tectonic grinding of conflicting interests.
MyTime Wants to Create a One-Stop Shopping Destination for Local Services
The company wants to be the world’s first online open appointment superstore.Voices
The Right Thing
If I say “iOS users overwhelmingly use the Safari browser, here’s the stats”, you’d say “okay, that’s interesting, what can I learn from that, and what opportunity does it represent to the industry?” But if I say “minorities in the tech industry overwhelmingly have this experience, here’s their examples”, you don’t say “Okay, what can […]Decisive, Distracted or Disaster?
What do Facebook’s elite developers think when Zuckerberg comes into the room and says, “Let’s all bust our asses for two weeks to copy a sexting app?”
–Jason Calacanis on Facebook’s Snapchat clone, Poke
