Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
Evidence policy
Every row below preserves an exact excerpt. Identified speakers are linked; unresolved voices are labeled and excluded from people counts.
Claim ledger
30 published records
01 / recommendation
“I started a magazine called CyberSurfer about dial up because somebody had told me that Star Log and Fangoria, that magazine, wanted to create a magazine about CD roms and dial up.”
02 / evaluation
“If you want to learn Black Jack, sit at the $1 Black Jack table instead of the $100 end because you will lose a minimum and it doesn't matter if you lose, it's like paying for an educational course.”
03 / belief
“We'll see what the other two do but I think the two got a chance to go public too.”
04 / belief
“I said, yes? I think that if we're going to have this spirited competition, that's great.”
05 / commitment
“I was like you are a unique talent. Nick Denton will never give you equity, I will give you equity.”
06 / belief
“I think there's one more layer though that I think we didn't touch on yet (that I've heard you speak about before) which is shaping your bets into this.”
07 / belief
“Some say, I'm a complete fraud and a handful think I'm a brilliant hype man. I don't agree with any of them, I agree with all of them.”
08 / belief
“I think that gave me the credibility with Sequoia that they said Jason keeps sending us these great deals.”
09 / belief
“I think Matt actually is leading a really important initiative now in the Federal Government at the US Digital Service.”
10 / belief
“I think enthusiasm is contagious. I've always been very enthusiastic about what I do.”
11 / belief
“I would say on the podcast hey, here's a company I'm investing and I'm having them on the podcast.”
12 / evaluation
“Before the brand was New York magazine, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and everybody you wrote for, it was just a faceless name. In the blogging paradigm now, the blogs don't matter.”
13 / belief
“I think that was Brian Avi's joke, it sounds like it's French so let's put an accent on top.”
14 / belief
“I think the number one website that I checked every single day at high school was The Unofficial Apple Weblog.”
15 / belief
“I was in both their offices next week and also, Mark Cuban—because I think when we sold, we turned his $150,000 into $5 or $6 million so he said, put me down for a million or whatever you want, Jason.”
16 / belief
“Listen, here's the joke. Denton wound up selling I think for $150 or something like that.”
17 / belief
“The only reason we've had people pick us over Y Combinator and people pick Y Combinator over us or go to Y Combinator then come to us. We're really the only, I think, accelerator, who can say that.”
18 / belief
“Jason, there's one thing you said I think is really insightful. When you're not Phil Hellmuth and you're playing poker for the first time, just invest in things that have shifted and have revenue.”
19 / belief
“I think a lot of our audience, probably, has not ever heard of Mahalo. Fill us in real quick on that.”
20 / uncertainty
“Mark Pincus and Evan were like how did you go from $11 million to a $100 million before the product launch in 6 months? I was like I don't know.”
21 / evaluation
“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.”
22 / commitment
“Then, I just made it as the first gap ad and I introduced, I think first round and definitely Cyan.”
23 / commitment
“I studied the Wiki Soft, I started playing with it and I made a little proof of concept where Google was dealing with web spam at the time and the order of the links weren't very good.”
24 / evaluation
“That's what trips early stage investors at which is why I wrote my book. It's because I felt I had figured something out and I wanted to share it with the world which was this is the greatest casino in the world, in my opinion.”
25 / evaluation
“" Then, they basically took 90% of our traffic away and the punch line was, they took 90% of their own revenue away because the way we're monetizing was with their tools.”
26 / prediction
“Because if you don't teach them a lesson, what I learned is they will come back.”
27 / commitment
“I made a list and ranked the top 100 people in the industry, and I ranked it just to tweak people.”
28 / commitment
“I said, I will give you equity on day one, fully vested, everything, just like me.”
29 / evaluation
“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.”
30 / commitment
“I will show everybody that not only am I not a fraud, that I can do this again and I could do it quicker, faster and better.”