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Jason Calacanis: evaluation

29 Apr 2020 Acquired Special: Jason Calacanis

“I own like 85%, 90% of the company. It was like the one of the most difficult times of my life because I had my chance to be rich and then I was poor again.”

— Jason Calacanis

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Jason Calacanis
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
29 Apr 2020
Publisher
Acquired

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…You end up selling Silicon Alley Reporter to Dow Jones, right? Yeah. It kind of collapsed and we wound up selling. I got two years of salary. The year before, Alan Mac went from internet.com and offered me $20 million for it. I own like 85%, 90% of the company. It was like the one of the most difficult times of my life because I had my chance to be rich and then I was poor again. Was it the dot-com crash?…

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