Jason Calacanis: evaluation

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…But for you, you got to start writing your next chapter and you're back in the game. The great thing about Silicon Alley Reporter crashing and burning was I learned very early on that I was more than the brand, because the brand Silicon Alley Reporter had gotten so big, and I was so identified with it. People would call me the Silicon Alley Reporter, that was like what people refer to me as. Because it crashed and burned, I was forced to disconnect myself from that, and Bob Dylan was always my favorite artist. I had always studied and been obsessed with how he went from folk to electric, and rock, to gospel. He just kept reiterating and then he started collaborating with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and did Empire Burlesque and all these other really infidels, these very interesting albums. I saw Bob Dylan maybe 20 times in person and he was always my favorite. I was like don't look back. I just told myself, you cannot look back. I never look at my press con. The amount of press I got in the 90s between being on Charlie Rose, being on 60 Minutes, all that stuff, I knew that I was never going to top that. That was a moment in time and I didn't want to top it. Who cares? I put all that press in boxes, I taped it up. It's literally in my brother's garage in New York still. I don't want to ever look at those clips. Don't look back, only forward. Next brand, next brand, next brand. Don't worry about the last brand. That's how I looked at myself at that point. I looked at myself and I said, "You know what? Kurosawa did all those samurai films and then he went into noir and the noir stuff was better. No one even knows about the noir, the film noir stuff he did. High and Low, Stray Dogs. He was kind of soft. The next chapter, you get money, you're back in the game after weblogs. Is that when you move to LA?…

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