Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJason Calacanis: belief
4 Oct 2022 Acquired ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis
“Before he was a VC, he was [...] for Lycos and I think CMGI. So there was a Lycos booth, and I had met this young lady at it, we hit it off, and we're talking.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Jason Calacanis
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 4 Oct 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis
Transcript context
…That's right. When Jerry was a VC before he was the whisperer of [...]. Before he was a VC, he was [...] for Lycos and I think CMGI. So there was a Lycos booth, and I had met this young lady at it, we hit it off, and we're talking. Then she introduced me to Jerry Colonna. I met Jerry Colonna in an office no bigger than this room in Union Square and he said, listen, I'm leaving Lycos, but I'm going to start this hack me ventures with my friend Fred. I want you to come read business plans for us. So I met Fred Wilson and I would go up to them and JP Morgan was going to back them for their venture firms. This was 1994–1995. This became Flatiron.…
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