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Jason Calacanis - Legendary Angel Investor
Monday, 30 March, 2020

Jad Esber (MBA 2020) and Bryce DeFigueiredo (MBA 2021) talk to Jason Calacanis. Jason is an entrepreneur and legendary angel investor. In the dot-com era, he started a company called Weblogs, Inc., which he sold to AOL. Later, he got into angel investing and invested at the earliest stages in companies such as Uber, Thumbtack, and Calm. Topics on this episode include: - How Jason learned where power resides and how wealth is created - His philosophy on capitalism and building companies - His advice to MBA founders - Why we all need to learn to take more risks