Jason Calacanis: evaluation

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…You could make money, build a company... You guys are like the first, whatever, we got a private. That's fine. I mean, listen. I believe in capitalism. I think it's great if people create jobs and if they get rewards for doing so. Fine. Literally, The second book I'm writing right now is about wealth and money. But not in my regard, but in a big picture societal regard. So I'm literally been thinking about this topic a ton. I think we worry a little bit too much about wealth creation with a small outlier wealth creation. We don't think enough about inspiring people to create companies and learn. The time I create the most controversy is when I believe anybody can do it. People are like, you're so wrong. I'm like, am I? Because I go on YouTube. You could type in any topic that you want to learn and you can learn it. All the stuff that was at MIT where I never got to go, Stanford, and Brown is online for free. 00 PM and I'm doing my email, I'll just put one of those playlists on from MIT OpenCourseWare. I'm like, I can't believe I can take a course at MIT for free anytime I want.…

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