Jason Calacanis: belief

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…Because of the pandemic? I think the politics, regulation, and not appreciating the tech industry is really a problem. Then you look at this guy, Dean Preston, he is dunking on the founder of Away and Stewart Butterfield from Slack. They're a couple. He's like, we got a $1.2 million out of them when they sold their homes. I'm like, and you also lost to incredible founders who have created tens of billions of dollars of wealth for San Francisco, you idiot. At the same time, Francis Suarez in Miami is listing all of the venture capital and doing a tweet storm about all the companies that raise venture capital. So you have one guy, Dean Preston, dunking on people saying, we have this 1% so when they sold their $30 million house, we were able to extract $1.2 million. That's why tech doesn't like me. I was like, hey, dummy. Yeah, now that all the future earnings are gone. Your marginal tax rate is 13.3%.…

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