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Jason Calacanis: commitment

4 Oct 2022 Acquired ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

“I will say the information edge compared to journalists—this is not a dig to my journalist friends.”

— Jason Calacanis

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Jason Calacanis
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commitment
Recorded
4 Oct 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…If you're hearing the right pitches, you actually are getting cutting edge information before it's widely available. Definitely. So okay, that's number two. Yeah, we probably have a slight information edge. I will say the information edge compared to journalists—this is not a dig to my journalist friends. I was a journalist. I had 75 people at the magazine. We were always trying to figure out from the principles what was going on and tell that story. But we were only as good as our access to information. Now looking back on it, I think we had between 5 and 35% of the story. I know that's probably triggering to a lot of journalists that they have that little information. You weren't on the inside.…

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