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Megyn Kelly is joined by Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya, co-hosts of the All-In Podcast, to discuss the evolution of Donald Trump and the entire political and cultural landscape, why "Trump 2.0" is attracting independents and moderates, why the left abandoned their principles and allowed an opening for Trump, the imminent need for DOGE to get to work, how Pete Hegseth is helping fix the military, how technology supremacy is key to both military and economic dominance, how bureaucratic red tape has stalled innovation, the truth behind Fox Corporation and the Megyn Kelly Show, what the acquisition of Red Seat Ventures by Fox means for the show, why independent media is so important, why independent media is thriving while legacy media is dying, how Big Tech algorithms shape and censor content, VP JD Vance's warning to Europe about their self-inflicted problems, their decline on the world stage, the recent bizarre meltdown from Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, their desperate attempts to stay relevant by bashing Elon Musk and DOGE, and more.Calacanis- https://www.launch.co/Palihapitiya - https://allin.com/Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldDone with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com/Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Highlights from this week's conversation include:Jason's background as an LP (0:27)Learning as an LP (3:00)Deal Flow and Decision Making (4:54)LP Archetype and Relationship Building (9:07)Venture Investment Strategy (10:55)Communication and Strategy (14:48)Different Investor Preferences (16:25)Predatory Behavior in Acquisitions (18:49)Insider Segment: Advice for Entering the Venture Capital Industry (23:53)The Future of Venture Capital (26:40)Jason's Fund Strategy (30:39)Defining Success and Legacy (32:45)Early Success and Process (35:14)The Future of Startups (40:31)LPs and GPs Relationship (43:10)Jason's Philosophy on Success (46:44)Jason's Process and Parting Advice (49:29)Jason Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcaster known for his keen insights into the tech startup ecosystem. With a net worth of approximately $100 million, he invests in over 100 startups annually through Launch.co. Calacanis also educates aspiring founders at Founder University and hosts the popular podcasts “All in Podcast” and "This Week in Startups." His notable investments include Uber and Robinhood.Armstrong International is a specialist financial services executive search firm with 30 years'​ experience across Public and Private Markets. Our consultants possess deep subject matter expertise within; Fixed Income, Equities, Private Equity, Private Debt, Digital (Data Science & Technology), Private Wealth, Corporate Finance, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Emerging Markets, Credit, FX, Emerging Markets & Commodities We are trusted by some of the world's leading financial institutions, who use us for 3 primary reasons: industry expertise, speed of hire, and ease of doing business. We like to innovate and have been at the forefront of some of the most profitable and exciting changes in the industry, including the technology revolution and the ever-expanding world of Private Markets.Swimming with Allocators is a podcast that dives into the intriguing world of Venture Capital from an LP (Limited Partner) perspective. Hosts Alexa Binns and Earnest Sweat are seasoned professionals who have donned various hats in the VC ecosystem. Each episode, we explore where the future opportunities lie in the VC landscape with insights from top LPs on their investment strategies and industry experts shedding light on emerging trends and technologies. The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice; instead, all information, content, and materials available on this podcast are for general informational purposes only.

Angel investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, “The World's Greatest Moderator” and co-host/Bestie of All-In Podcast, joins Julia La Roche on episode 125 for a wide-ranging discussion. Calacanis, affectionately known as “J-Cal,” is one of the best angel investors in the world, having turned $100,000 into $100,000,000, with early investments in Uber, Calm, Robinhood, Wealthfront, and more. He co-hosts the popular All-In Podcast alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and David Friedberg. The conversation covers various topics, including the despicable display on Capitol Hill, the meaning of being an American, the impact of abundance on society. They also get into the breakout success of the All-In Podcast, interviewing presidential candidates, and how the show is leaving millions on the table by not having advertising.  In the conversation, Julia learns how Jason came to own the first Tesla Model S and 16th Roadster. They also got into some of the media scrutiny of Musk. In this conversation, Julia and Jason discuss the rise of independent creators and the shift away from traditional media networks. They explore the advantages of being an independent content creator and the potential for greater financial success.  Elsewhere, Jason shares his journey to success, highlighting the importance of hard work, seizing opportunities, and understanding every aspect of one's field. They also discuss finding purpose and joy in life, the power of partnerships, and the future of the All-In Summit.  Links:  Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Jason The All-In Podcast: https://www.allinpodcast.co/ This Week In Startups: https://thisweekinstartups.com/ Newsletter: https://calacanis.substack.com/ Launch: https://www.launch.co/ Angel University: https://www.angel.university/online More links: https://linktr.ee/calacanis/ 0:00 Welcome Jason Calacanis  2:14 Antisemitism on college campuses, Harvard, MIT, and UPenn on Capitol Hill 6:20 Identity politics madness is coming to an end  850 Why has America drifted?  10:50 Democracy + capitalism  13:20 Get rid of the victim mentality  15:55 Hard work pays off, keep adding skills  20:14 Success of the All-In Podcast  23:00 Presidential candidates on the All-In Podcast  26:30 All-In Summit  28:40 All-In leaving $25 million on the table  29:35 Elon Musk and how Jason got the first Tesla Model S 35:14 Media scrutiny of Musk 40:50 Podcasting and rise of independent creators  43:50 Power of going the independent route  54:40 Jason's background and journey to success 54:00 Finding purpose and joy 56:20 Besties and the power of partnerships 

There's no one more perfectly situated between the tech media and the tech elites who loathe them.Jason Calacanis built his reputation in Silicon Valley as a feisty tech reporter, waiting in line to ask Steve Jobs questions at the Code Conference. An extremely early investment in Uber suddenly made him one of the most famous angel investors in the world (thanks also to Calacanis's self-promotional megaphone). Today, Calacanis co-hosts All-In, the second-most popular tech podcast and one of the most popular podcasts in the world. The show is a must-listen in Silicon Valley and the envy of many wannabe thought leaders.We invited Calacanis on our much, much smaller tech podcast Dead Cat to interrogate what has made All-In so successful and where Silicon Valley's roiling war with the media is headed. Calacanis, who is reportedly part of Elon Musk's war room at Twitter, warned us that he absolutely would not talk about Musk's Twitter. (We tried.)This was a fun episode that we recorded right before Thanksgiving with co-host Tom Dotan and regular special guest Katie Benner. I'm going to publish a companion article with my reflections on the conversation shortly. Enjoy! Give it a listenRead the automated transcript Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

There's no one more perfectly situated between the tech media and the tech elites who loathe them.Jason Calacanis built his reputation in Silicon Valley as a feisty tech reporter, waiting in line to ask Steve Jobs questions at the Code Conference. An extremely early investment in Uber suddenly made him one of the most famous angel investors in the world (thanks also to Calacanis's self-promotional megaphone). Today, Calacanis co-hosts All-In, the second-most popular tech podcast and one of the most popular podcasts in the world. The show is a must-listen in Silicon Valley and the envy of many wannabe thought leaders.We invited Calacanis on our much, much smaller tech podcast Dead Cat to interrogate what has made All-In so successful and where Silicon Valley's roiling war with the media is headed. Calacanis, who is reportedly part of Elon Musk's war room at Twitter, warned us that he absolutely would not talk about Musk's Twitter. (We tried.)This was a fun episode that we recorded right before Thanksgiving with co-host Tom Dotan and regular special guest Katie Benner. I'm going to publish a companion article with my reflections on the conversation shortly. Enjoy! Give it a listenRead the automated transcript Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

Las últimas noticias Bitcoin hoy y las mejores criptonoticias en Bit2Me Crypto News: 🆕 Bitcoin se puede recuperar gracias a un fondo de liquidez: Changpeng Zhao, CEO de Binance, ha anunciado la creación de un fondo de liquidez destinado a la recuperación del sector cripto y a reducir los efectos negativos que ha tenido la caída de FTX. Noticiario completo aquí 👉 https://youtu.be/vJw6Dreo2js 🚀 "Bitcoin superará esta crisis" Elon Musk, dueño de Twitter y CEO de Tesla, respondió en Twitter a las dudas sobre el futuro de Bitcoin que tenía el inversor Jason Calacanis. Musk respondió a Calacanis asegurando que Bitcoin superará la crisis, pero que “podría ser un largo invierno”. Con esta frase se refiere a que, si bien Bitcoin superará este bache y saldrá reforzado, el precio general del mercado cripto podría tardar mucho tiempo en recuperarse. Noticiario completo aquí 👉 https://youtu.be/54b4JuS3PEo 💸 ¿BlockFi en quiebra? la empresa ha enviado una actualización oficial a todos sus clientes explicando que tienen una “exposición significativa a FTX y a sus empresas afiliadas. En concreto, se refieren a obligaciones de Alameda, activos mantenidos en FTX y una supuesta línea de crédito con FTX US de más de 400 millones de dólares. Noticiario completo aquí 👉 https://youtu.be/aBZCFEpBDJs 🛒 El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, está decidido a aprovechar la caída en el precio de Bitcoin provocada por la implosión de FTX y ha explicado en Twitter que “comprarán un Bitcoin cada día, a partir de mañana”. Noticiario completo aquí 👉https://youtu.be/Unj9mnLYv_I 🔎 Fraude de FTX y Alameda: Un informe publicado por Nansen, una empresa de análisis blockchain, FTX y Alameda Research habrían estado confabuladas desde el principio y habrían cometido fraude, ya que ambas entidades fueron creadas por Sam Bankman-Fried. Noticiario completo aquí 👉 https://youtu.be/pWAZ-KpPG2k 🚀 Suscríbete a nuestro Canal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBiA... 00:00 Intro 0:17 Bitcoin se recupera ligeramente 1:52 Elon Musk responde sobre las dudas del futuro de Bitcoin 3:02 BlockFi anuncia exposición significativa a FTX 4:28 Bukele y Justin Sun comprarán un BTC al día 5:21 ¿Esquema fraudulento pactado entre Alameda y FTX? 7:13 Cierre #Criptonoticias #Bitcoin #Blockchain #Criptomonedas 🎁 ¡𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗼! Si estás aquí, aprendiendo, te mereces nuestro regalo especial: Regístrate en Bit2Me con este enlace y en tu primera compra de 100€ o más te regalaremos 5€: up.bit2me.com/ytregalo ¡La revolución la creamos entre todos! 📲¡𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮 𝗹𝗮 𝗔𝗣𝗣 𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝟮𝗠𝗲! up.bit2me.com/appyt 💻 Nuestra web: up.bit2me.com/ythome 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗹 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗼: 🧑‍🎓 Academy: up.bit2me.com/ytacademy 📰 Crypto News: up.bit2me.com/ytnews 🆕 Web3MBA, el primer Máster Online Descentralizado y Tokenizado sobre Web 3.0 e Innovación: Pruébalo GRATIS: up.bit2me.com/ytweb3mba ✍🏻 ¡Apunta! 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘀: ► COMPRA criptomonedas: up.bit2me.com/ytcompracripto ► EARN. Gana con tus criptos sin hacer nada: up.bit2me.com/ytearn ► B2M. El Utility Token de Bit2Me. Descubre las ventajas: up.bit2me.com/ytb2mtoken 🆕 CARD. Paga con tus cripto donde quieras: up.bit2me.com/ytcard ► PAY. Envía y recibe criptos gratis a todo el mundo: https://up.bit2me.com/ytbpay ► LAUNCHPAD. Participa en los lanzamientos de nuevos tokens: up.bit2me.com/ytlaunchpad 🆕 COMMERCE. Acepta pagos con cripto en tu negocio: https://up.bit2me.com/ytcommerce 👉 𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗼 𝗺á𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀: ⭕️ YouTube News: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Yg... ⭕️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bit2me ⭕️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bit2me ⭕️ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bit2me ⭕️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bit2me/ ⭕️ Telegram: https://t.me/Bit2Me_ES ⭕️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bit2me ⭕️ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bit2me ⭕️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@bit2me:c ⭕️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Tj4kyX... ⭕️ iVoox: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-bit2me-... y por supuesto, dale a la campanita para activar las notificaciones 🔔

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Las mejores noticias de Bitcoin hoy y criptomonedas en Bit2Me Crypto News: 🚀 "Bitcoin superará esta crisis" Elon Musk, dueño de Twitter y CEO de Tesla, respondió en Twitter a las dudas sobre el futuro de Bitcoin que tenía el inversor Jason Calacanis. Musk respondió a Calacanis asegurando que Bitcoin superará la crisis, pero que “podría ser un largo invierno”. Con esta frase se refiere a que, si bien Bitcoin superará este bache y saldrá reforzado, el precio general del mercado cripto podría tardar mucho tiempo en recuperarse. 📈 Trust Wallet, ha lanzado su extensión para navegadores, que permitirá a los usuarios utilizar el monedero desde el navegador web. Atomic Wallet tiene problemas retiros en iOS. Los usuarios no tienen disponibles sus fondos. 👍 Con el objetivo de limitar las consecuencias de la caída de FTX, Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO de Chilliz, anunció el domingo un plan de recuperación. El fundador de la plataforma de fan tokens anunció la creación de un fondo de 38 millones de tokens CHZ, que se asignarán a direcciones públicas. ✈️ A pesar de la complicada situación del mercado, MATIC ha tenido un excelente rendimiento en las últimas semanas. Esto se debe a que Polygon está siendo la blockchain favorita para una serie de desarrollos en el metaverso. 🚀 Suscríbete a nuestro Canal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBiA... 0:00Sumario 0:59 Trust Wallet llega a navegadores web 2:20 Chiliz crea fondo para ayudar a los usuarios afectados de FTX 3:25 El primer aeropuerto en el metaverso 4:31 Elon Musk despeja las dudas sobre el futuro de Bitcoin 5:45 Cierre #Criptonoticias #Bitcoin #Blockchain #Criptomonedas 🎁 ¡𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗼! Si estás aquí, aprendiendo, te mereces nuestro regalo especial: Regístrate en Bit2Me con este enlace y en tu primera compra de 100€ o más te regalaremos 5€: up.bit2me.com/ytregalo ¡La revolución la creamos entre todos! 📲¡𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮 𝗹𝗮 𝗔𝗣𝗣 𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝟮𝗠𝗲! up.bit2me.com/appyt 💻 Nuestra web: up.bit2me.com/ythome 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗹 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗼: 🧑‍🎓 Academy: up.bit2me.com/ytacademy 📰 Crypto News: up.bit2me.com/ytnews 🆕 Web3MBA, el primer Máster Online Descentralizado y Tokenizado sobre Web 3.0 e Innovación: Pruébalo GRATIS: up.bit2me.com/ytweb3mba ✍🏻 ¡Apunta! 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘀: ► COMPRA criptomonedas: up.bit2me.com/ytcompracripto ► EARN. Gana con tus criptos sin hacer nada: up.bit2me.com/ytearn ► B2M. El Utility Token de Bit2Me. Descubre las ventajas: up.bit2me.com/ytb2mtoken 🆕 CARD. Paga con tus cripto donde quieras: up.bit2me.com/ytcard ► PAY. Envía y recibe criptos gratis a todo el mundo: https://up.bit2me.com/ytbpay ► LAUNCHPAD. Participa en los lanzamientos de nuevos tokens: up.bit2me.com/ytlaunchpad 🆕 COMMERCE. Acepta pagos con cripto en tu negocio: https://up.bit2me.com/ytcommerce 👉 𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗼 𝗺á𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀: ⭕️ YouTube News: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Yg... ⭕️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bit2me ⭕️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bit2me ⭕️ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bit2me ⭕️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bit2me/ ⭕️ Telegram: https://t.me/Bit2Me_ES ⭕️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bit2me ⭕️ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bit2me ⭕️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@bit2me:c ⭕️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Tj4kyX... ⭕️ iVoox: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-bit2me-... y por supuesto, dale a la campanita para activar las notificaciones 🔔

Play during opening: 4:43-4:47 The pathetic spectacle of a man who's run out of road…and more on today's CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. This is Toby Sumpter. Today is Friday, January 14, 2022.  If you want to see more of this sort of thing, please consider joining the Fight Laugh Feast Club. For less than a few coffees a month, you can help us build a rowdy Christian media response to liberal legacy media, big tech, and build a Christian megaphone for the truth. Got to flfnetwork.com and click on “join the club.” First Up: SuperCringe from Australia: Want to Go on a VAX Date?  Play Audio There are wheels within wheels here. First, we have two girls who are apparently going on a date? They're going to see the new Spider Man at 10am? Who goes to the movies at 10am? That's creepy. Then, like it's Nazi Germany, the kid asks for to see their certificates of vaccination. I mean, why not ask for their full medical history? I mean, how many STDs do they have since they're lesbians and more likely to be transmitting sexual diseases? Then the girl says that her parents haven't let her get vaccinated and the other girl says that she doesn't need her parent's permission to get vaccinated and off the go on the vax date.  But notice: they don't need parental permission to get foreign substances put into their body that could have significant side effects or life-long impacts, but they do need the government's permission to go see a movie. It's not like parents have been removed, the question is rather who is playing the part of parents. And in totalitarian regimes it's the government.  I would also just like to point out here that you cannot remove parental permissions for medical decisions and then pretend that the category of consenting adult still exists. If you can make medical decisions without parental permission, then you can make sexual decisions as well. And the lower that age gets, the closer we get to allowing pedophilia. And if you don't think that's already in the back of some peoples' minds, you're not paying attention. The current freak out over children not being vaccinated is driven, in part, by the ultimate goal of removing parental protections so that they can be groomed and preyed upon by sexual predators.  Families have failed to establish their government. Fathers have failed. There is no loyalty to parents and family government because parents have not loved and taught their children well. And parents have not done that because they have not been discipled by the churches. Pastors have limited their teaching to a tiny sliver of what is called the gospel, but it's so tiny and full of emotional fluff, that no doubt many of these pastors and their parishoners in Australia and New Zealand will arrive in heaven to hear the Lord say depart from me, you workers of iniquity, and I never heard of you.  Owner of the Golden Warriors Says He Doesn't Care About the Uyghur Genocide https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/warriors-chamath-palihapitiya-no-one-cares-about-uyghurs/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter A minority owner of the Golden State Warriors got in a bit of hot water on social media for callously admitting he does not care about Uyghur genocide in China. Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist who owns 10 percent of the NBA franchise, expressed cold indifference to the plight of the Uyghurs, an ethnic Muslim minority that has been persecuted in China, on his “All In” podcast over the weekend. When co-host Jason Calacanis said President Biden's statement about the Uyghurs was one of the stronger things he's said, Palihapitiya interjected that nobody cares about them. “Let's be honest, nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs,” Palihapitiya said. “You bring it up because you really care, and I think that's nice that you care. The rest of us don't care. “I'm telling you a very hard, ugly truth. Of all the things that I care about, it is below my line.” David Sacks, the third co-host of the podcast, said that if you bring up everything that is happening with the Uyghurs, Americans care — but it is not at the “top of their minds.” “I care about [empty shelves at grocery stores]. I care about the fact that our economy could turn on a dime if China invades Taiwan. I care about that,” Palihapitiya said. “I care about climate change. I care about America's crippling and decrepit health care infrastructure. “But if you're asking me do I care about a segment of a class of people in another country? Not until we can take care of ourselves will I prioritize them over us. I think a lot of people believe that and I'm sorry if that's a hard truth to hear. But every time I say that I care about the Uyghurs, I'm really just lying if I don't really care.” Here it is: 14:47-15:54 The Warriors distanced themselves from Palihapitiya's opinion on Monday. “As a limited investor who has no day-to-day operating functions with the Warriors, Mr. does not speak on behalf of our franchise, and his views certainly don't reflect those of our organization,” the team said in a statement. The Uyghurs have been subjected to rape, sterilizations and slave labor. Biden signed a bill in Decemberbanning imports from the Xinjiang region of China unless it can be proven the goods were not made with forced labor.  Calacanis said it's a sad state of affairs if people can't care about global human rights. “That's a luxury belief,” Palihapitiya responded. “The reason I think that is we don't do enough domestically to actually express that view in real tangible ways. So until we actually clean up our own house, the idea that we step outside our borders, with us morally virtue-signaling about someone else's human rights record, is deplorable.” Human rights in China is a third-rail topic for the NBA. The league had a lot of its future growth pegged to its relationship with China, when then-Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted to “Free Hong Kong” in support of democracy protesters and ignited a firestorm in 2019. AD: Founded in 2018, The Reformed Sage exists to edify Christians with products and services that build the kingdom of God and proclaim the gospel to all. We have created products that are unique, useful, beautiful, and humorous. We have wood art, engraved wall art, apparel, drinkware, decals, stamps, and much more. We also regularly make custom merchandise at wholesale prices for churches, ministries and businesses that want to add or expand their product offerings in turn increasing revenue. Please use promo code FLF22 for 10% off your first order. AND HAPPENING NOW: All apparel is marked down until Super Bowl Sunday! (No promo code necessary) Shirts: $20 Hoodies: $30 and more! They are changing apparel vendors and removing some designs. We do not know at this time what color/sizing options we will have available come March 1. So, if there is an apparel combo you want (design/size/color) better grab it before it is gone for good! This sale ends on February 6th. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is Being Asked to Resign for Attending Parties During Lockdown https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/uks-boris-johnson-clings-to-power-as-partygate-scandal-rumbles-on.html U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's position is looking increasingly vulnerable as more reports emerge of parties and gatherings in Downing Street during periods of Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions. Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, accused Johnson of breaking Covid laws amid numerous allegations of parties and gatherings that were held by government staff, with some attended by Johnson, during lockdown. In the last few days more reports of parties have emerged, with Downing Street apologizing to Queen Elizabeth after it has emerged that two parties took place on the eve of Prince Phillip's funeral in April 2021, in which it's alleged that a staff member was sent out to buy a “suitcase of wine.” Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Starmer said Johnson had “lied” about what he called “industrial scale partying” in Downing Street. “The facts speak for themselves, and the country has made up its mind,” he said, adding it was “blindingly obvious what's happened.” “I think he broke the law, I think he's as good as admitted that he broke the law,” he told the BBC. Johnson admitted to Parliament last week that he had attended a drinks party at Downing Street, the prime minister's office and which he lives next door to, during the U.K.'s first Covid lockdown in May 2020 but said he believed it was a “work event.” 1:03-1:39 Did you catch that? Boris said that he was really, really sorry he thought it was a work meeting in the garden.  At this time, people in the U.K. were only allowed to meet one other person from outside their household, and had to meet outdoors, among other strict rules.  To which the opposition party leader, Keir Starmer, replied: Play: 4:38-5:18 First off, don't you wish President Biden had to interact with that kind of withering rhetoric? Or at least Dr. Fauci?  From a friend: Boris Johnson “is a serial adulterer, and the first PM to have a live-in girlfriend at  10 Downing Street. He is also a serial liar, and has been found out. I suspect he will have to resign, but he will be replaced by someone even more compromised politically - probably Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was pro-brexit, but has also been pro-lockdown. However, Rees-Mogg would not be favorable to the Biden regime, so pressure might be put on Conservative MPs to chose someone like Sajid Javid or Rishi Sunak, which would give Britain either it's first Muslim or Hindu Prime Minister.” Another news sources says that Rishi Sunak's name recognition among voters is high at around 95 per cent to 98 per cent, and a net favourability of plus three shows he is well-liked… Psalm of the Day: 98 0:00-1:09 Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show.  This is Toby Sumpter with Crosspolitic News. A reminder: Support Rowdy Christian media, and share this show or become a Fight Laugh Feast Club Member. What allows us to continuing growing to take on the Big Media Lie Fest is your monthly membership support. If you've already joined, a huge thanks to you, and if you haven't, please consider joining today and have a great weekend.

Play during opening: 4:43-4:47 The pathetic spectacle of a man who's run out of road…and more on today's CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. This is Toby Sumpter. Today is Friday, January 14, 2022. If you want to see more of this sort of thing, please consider joining the Fight Laugh Feast Club. For less than a few coffees a month, you can help us build a rowdy Christian media response to liberal legacy media, big tech, and build a Christian megaphone for the truth. Got to flfnetwork.com and click on “join the club.” First Up: SuperCringe from Australia: Want to Go on a VAX Date? Play Audio There are wheels within wheels here. First, we have two girls who are apparently going on a date? They're going to see the new Spider Man at 10am? Who goes to the movies at 10am? That's creepy. Then, like it's Nazi Germany, the kid asks for to see their certificates of vaccination. I mean, why not ask for their full medical history? I mean, how many STDs do they have since they're lesbians and more likely to be transmitting sexual diseases? Then the girl says that her parents haven't let her get vaccinated and the other girl says that she doesn't need her parent's permission to get vaccinated and off the go on the vax date. But notice: they don't need parental permission to get foreign substances put into their body that could have significant side effects or life-long impacts, but they do need the government's permission to go see a movie. It's not like parents have been removed, the question is rather who is playing the part of parents. And in totalitarian regimes it's the government. I would also just like to point out here that you cannot remove parental permissions for medical decisions and then pretend that the category of consenting adult still exists. If you can make medical decisions without parental permission, then you can make sexual decisions as well. And the lower that age gets, the closer we get to allowing pedophilia. And if you don't think that's already in the back of some peoples' minds, you're not paying attention. The current freak out over children not being vaccinated is driven, in part, by the ultimate goal of removing parental protections so that they can be groomed and preyed upon by sexual predators. Families have failed to establish their government. Fathers have failed. There is no loyalty to parents and family government because parents have not loved and taught their children well. And parents have not done that because they have not been discipled by the churches. Pastors have limited their teaching to a tiny sliver of what is called the gospel, but it's so tiny and full of emotional fluff, that no doubt many of these pastors and their parishoners in Australia and New Zealand will arrive in heaven to hear the Lord say depart from me, you workers of iniquity, and I never heard of you. Owner of the Golden Warriors Says He Doesn't Care About the Uyghur Genocide https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/warriors-chamath-palihapitiya-no-one-cares-about-uyghurs/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter A minority owner of the Golden State Warriors got in a bit of hot water on social media for callously admitting he does not care about Uyghur genocide in China. Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist who owns 10 percent of the NBA franchise, expressed cold indifference to the plight of the Uyghurs, an ethnic Muslim minority that has been persecuted in China, on his “All In” podcast over the weekend. When co-host Jason Calacanis said President Biden's statement about the Uyghurs was one of the stronger things he's said, Palihapitiya interjected that nobody cares about them. “Let's be honest, nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs,” Palihapitiya said. “You bring it up because you really care, and I think that's nice that you care. The rest of us don't care. “I'm telling you a very hard, ugly truth. Of all the things that I care about, it is below my line.” David Sacks, the third co-host of the podcast, said that if you bring up everything that is happening with the Uyghurs, Americans care — but it is not at the “top of their minds.” “I care about [empty shelves at grocery stores]. I care about the fact that our economy could turn on a dime if China invades Taiwan. I care about that,” Palihapitiya said. “I care about climate change. I care about America's crippling and decrepit health care infrastructure. “But if you're asking me do I care about a segment of a class of people in another country? Not until we can take care of ourselves will I prioritize them over us. I think a lot of people believe that and I'm sorry if that's a hard truth to hear. But every time I say that I care about the Uyghurs, I'm really just lying if I don't really care.” Here it is: 14:47-15:54 The Warriors distanced themselves from Palihapitiya's opinion on Monday. “As a limited investor who has no day-to-day operating functions with the Warriors, Mr. does not speak on behalf of our franchise, and his views certainly don't reflect those of our organization,” the team said in a statement. The Uyghurs have been subjected to rape, sterilizations and slave labor. Biden signed a bill in Decemberbanning imports from the Xinjiang region of China unless it can be proven the goods were not made with forced labor. Calacanis said it's a sad state of affairs if people can't care about global human rights. “That's a luxury belief,” Palihapitiya responded. “The reason I think that is we don't do enough domestically to actually express that view in real tangible ways. So until we actually clean up our own house, the idea that we step outside our borders, with us morally virtue-signaling about someone else's human rights record, is deplorable.” Human rights in China is a third-rail topic for the NBA. The league had a lot of its future growth pegged to its relationship with China, when then-Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted to “Free Hong Kong” in support of democracy protesters and ignited a firestorm in 2019. AD: Founded in 2018, The Reformed Sage exists to edify Christians with products and services that build the kingdom of God and proclaim the gospel to all. We have created products that are unique, useful, beautiful, and humorous. We have wood art, engraved wall art, apparel, drinkware, decals, stamps, and much more. We also regularly make custom merchandise at wholesale prices for churches, ministries and businesses that want to add or expand their product offerings in turn increasing revenue. Please use promo code FLF22 for 10% off your first order. AND HAPPENING NOW: All apparel is marked down until Super Bowl Sunday! (No promo code necessary) Shirts: $20 Hoodies: $30 and more! They are changing apparel vendors and removing some designs. We do not know at this time what color/sizing options we will have available come March 1. So, if there is an apparel combo you want (design/size/color) better grab it before it is gone for good! This sale ends on February 6th. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is Being Asked to Resign for Attending Parties During Lockdown https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/uks-boris-johnson-clings-to-power-as-partygate-scandal-rumbles-on.html U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's position is looking increasingly vulnerable as more reports emerge of parties and gatherings in Downing Street during periods of Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions. Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, accused Johnson of breaking Covid laws amid numerous allegations of parties and gatherings that were held by government staff, with some attended by Johnson, during lockdown. In the last few days more reports of parties have emerged, with Downing Street apologizing to Queen Elizabeth after it has emerged that two parties took place on the eve of Prince Phillip's funeral in April 2021, in which it's alleged that a staff member was sent out to buy a “suitcase of wine.” Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Starmer said Johnson had “lied” about what he called “industrial scale partying” in Downing Street. “The facts speak for themselves, and the country has made up its mind,” he said, adding it was “blindingly obvious what's happened.” “I think he broke the law, I think he's as good as admitted that he broke the law,” he told the BBC. Johnson admitted to Parliament last week that he had attended a drinks party at Downing Street, the prime minister's office and which he lives next door to, during the U.K.'s first Covid lockdown in May 2020 but said he believed it was a “work event.” 1:03-1:39 Did you catch that? Boris said that he was really, really sorry he thought it was a work meeting in the garden. At this time, people in the U.K. were only allowed to meet one other person from outside their household, and had to meet outdoors, among other strict rules. To which the opposition party leader, Keir Starmer, replied: Play: 4:38-5:18 First off, don't you wish President Biden had to interact with that kind of withering rhetoric? Or at least Dr. Fauci? From a friend: Boris Johnson “is a serial adulterer, and the first PM to have a live-in girlfriend at 10 Downing Street. He is also a serial liar, and has been found out. I suspect he will have to resign, but he will be replaced by someone even more compromised politically - probably Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was pro-brexit, but has also been pro-lockdown. However, Rees-Mogg would not be favorable to the Biden regime, so pressure might be put on Conservative MPs to chose someone like Sajid Javid or Rishi Sunak, which would give Britain either it's first Muslim or Hindu Prime Minister.” Another news sources says that Rishi Sunak's name recognition among voters is high at around 95 per cent to 98 per cent, and a net favourability of plus three shows he is well-liked… Psalm of the Day: 98 0:00-1:09 Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show. This is Toby Sumpter with Crosspolitic News. A reminder: Support Rowdy Christian media, and share this show or become a Fight Laugh Feast Club Member. What allows us to continuing growing to take on the Big Media Lie Fest is your monthly membership support. If you've already joined, a huge thanks to you, and if you haven't, please consider joining today and have a great weekend.

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Ryan Sneddon is a self-described CEO and emperor of local news. Ryan is building a hyperlocal newsletter empire one city at a time, starting with Annapolis, MD.Ryan's newsletter, Naptown Scoop, is an email to the residents of Annapolis containing all pertinent news and events. It's an awesome community of residents and business owners coming together to be good neighbors.Ryan has worked as an editor at The Daily Thread, as a business solutions consultant at Softdocs, and as an engineer for Grand Banks Yachts. Ryan has also worked as a project engineer at The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.Ryan studied mechanical engineering at the University of South Carolina, and also worked as a cinematographer and photographer. Ryan has done volunteer work building relationships with high school students while leading a team of other volunteers at Young Life.In this episode, you'll learn: How Ryan stays motivated when work gets overwhelming Ryan's philosophy and tips for interacting with your audience  A great way to assess your growth and progress as a writer Ryan's proven strategies for maximizing your social media engagement Links & Resources From Boise AppSumo Viral Loops on AppSumo Jason Calacanis Annapolis Rotaract Club Ryan Sneddon's Links Ryan's Twitter: @sneddymobbin Naptown Scoop Episode TranscriptRyan: [00:00:00]First advice would just be to “get started.” Second advice would be, “don't quit,” every day. Third advice (this is not specific to a local newsletter. I would say this to any newsletter, any brand, anyone ever) just be responsive.The great thing about an email newsletter is that people can answer it: I can reply to an email cause it's just a regular email. Answer every single one of those, because that's how you build up a loyalty.Nathan: [00:00:30]In this episode I talk to Ryan Sneddon who runs Naptown Scoop, which is a local newsletter for the Annapolis region. I like it because I started a local newsletter called Boise, to just about a thousand subscribers. And, you know, Ryan and I were chatting back and forth on Twitter, just saying like, what ideas are we learning from each other?He was giving me some advice and I was like, you know, I why don't you just come on the podcast and share the story, share what you're doing.It's pretty fun how it's coming together. He's working super, super hard on it, and we dive into all the details. So with that, I'll get out of the way.Ryan, thanks for joining me.Ryan: [00:01:09]My pleasure.Nathan: [00:01:10]So give us the 30-second pitch. What's the newsletter, and then from there, we'll dive into, “Why start a local newsletter?”Ryan: [00:01:18]My newsletter is called an Naptown scoop and the 30-second pitch; I could really do it in 10 seconds. It's just everything you need to know about the town delivered straight to your inbox three times a week. And I would do it more if it were a bigger city, do it less if it were a smaller city, but that's just kind of the perfect number of times that gets you all the information, but it's not too much.Nathan: [00:01:40]Yeah, that sounds good. So what was the inspiration to start it?Ryan: [00:01:43]There's another company. I mean, there's a couple of companies now that are out there doing this, but I lived in Columbia, South Carolina after college. I went to college there and stayed a little bit extra. And there was a company there that did it and I really liked it. And then I moved away back here to home, and I didn't have that.And I was like, well, that was cool. I can't be the only one that liked that. So I was like, I'll just build it here. And, I wasn't the only one that liked it. We were talking before we started recording. There's not really a good original ideas in my head. So the fact that I wanted it was a good sign, because if I wanted it other people probably do, too.Nathan: [00:02:17]Yeah, that makes sense. I am fascinated by local newsletters. I started one on my own called From Boise.Ryan: [00:02:27]I get it; you got to see what everyone else is doing and your same space.Nathan: [00:02:31]Got to get some ideas. I saw Andrew Wilkinson do it in Victoria, British Columbia, which is one of my favorite cities to visit. And so I saw him do that and I was like, oh, well I love Boise as much as he loves Victoria, and wanted to do some local projects. So, so, it's been fun, but maybe before we dive into the growth and all of that, what are some of the favorite moments from running it where you're like, “Oh, this is actually pretty sweet?”Ryan: [00:02:59]There's a lot. One just happened last week. I think it was, it's been like a really long, last two weeks; has been a really super full and, I don't use the “B” word. I don't say “busy.” I'm not allowed to, but it's been like a really full on hundred miles an hour, 20 hours a day, kind of lasts two weeks now.Like sometimes—no joke—sometimes more than that. But last Thursday night I was delivering cookies to people who bought shirts, because I made some shirts to sell for the brand. And I said I was going to deliver cookies to the first or 10 out of the first hundred orders, which was like super ambitious of me.I didn't even think about the fact that like, I would have to sell a hundred shirts for that to happen. and I only sold 10 shirts. So I delivered the 10 cookies to the first 10 people instead of 10 out of the first hundred. But I'm delivering cookies to this one, and I just emailed everybody and said, if you're not home, can I leave it in the mailbox?And they were like, yeah, our mailbox is a giant stone pillar at the front of the driveway. And I was like, giant stone pillar? Like, this is probably a pretty nice house. And so I put in the GPS and I'm like, oh yeah, this is a waterfront looking pretty good. I roll up to the house and it's gorgeous.It's probably like this three to $4 million house. I can look at it and kind of think I know who the architect is, because she's pretty famous around the area. And as I'm putting these cookies in the giant mailbox, they roll up and they like the car honks, and they roll down the window. It was an Uber, they rolled out of the back windows and they're like, “You must be Ryan!”And I was like, “Yeah!” And they were like, “Do you have time to come in for a drink?” And I'm like, “Yeah, why not?” it's 9:45 at night. No, it wasn't, it wasn't a Thursday. I think it was a Wednesday because if it was Thursday, I would have had to go home and write the email for Friday. But since it was Wednesday, I didn't have to get one out to the next day.So I was like, “Yeah, I have time for a drink!” And I ended up sitting on their back porch for two hours, drinking wine, just talking about their life, my life, the business, the guy, it was just the guy's first day of retirement. He had just retired from being CEO of a giant PR firm in New York city. And this is their retirement house.It turns out it was designed by my favorite architect and it was just an incredible experience. I saw them the next day, too, because they live on this Creek called Mill Creek. And have you ever seen hydrofoils?Nathan: [00:05:24]Yes.Ryan: [00:05:25]So we were doing that the couple of days before. but we were doing electric ones, so they have a little propeller on them.They're super fun. And a bunch of like, it's really trendy right now. And there's like three businesses that all started in Annapolis doing it. And, two out of, three of them have invited me out multiple times to go out with them. And so I'll do it and put it on Instagram. And part of it is like, I do want to help these people cause they're just super starting out.They're like way earlier than even me. And also it makes me look super cool when I go out and do this thing. Every time I post this, it gets incredible engagement and people love it. And then, you know, this is a funny story about that. This guy, his name's Rob and his wife, Tammy. They were like, we saw your friend James yesterday.And James is one of the people that owns these new businesses. We saw them out doing the foil and we asked them, we called them over to our boat and we said, are you Ryan? And he was like, apparently a super disappointed that he was like, no, I taught Ryan how to do this. Like, I'm the only reason you know him to do this.And they were like, yeah, we, he could tell that we were kind of disappointed that he wasn't you, but now we met you. so it was just crazy. And we were out doing it the next day and they were on their docks at high. so just stuff like that, that like I never, in a million years would have written that as a story, but it happens and it's just, it's a great.Nathan: [00:06:42]Yeah. You, you had a tweet the other day about going out for a walk with the mayor, which on one hand that's, that's a pretty cool thing. You know, you're like, oh, I get to meet. You know, meet the mayor and all of that, but then more people recognized you then the mayor just as you're walking around town.Ryan: [00:06:58]Yeah, well, the mayor, so it is cool to go out with the bear, a campaigning event for one of our city council people or city council hopefuls. And, I went out just to meet her. I, no one else showed up except for me, her and him. And her, I think her campaign manager or somebody who works for her. And so instead of doing their normal walk where she walks around the Naval academy, football stadium and talks to her constituents or hopeful constituents, we went and saw the new bike path that the it's one of the mayor's projects and he just kind of hijack the campaign walk.And he still thinks that the Naptown Scoop is an ice cream. it's kind of hilarious. I've I've met the guy a bunch of times, someday. Well, we'll get them to know that it's not actually an ice cream shop, but yeah, we're, we're out walking and he's introducing himself and he's got this British, not British, Australian accent and he's campaigning for reelection.They all, there are like city council persons. She's not on there yet, but she's hoping to be on there. So she's campaigning and he's out. He introduces himself as, Hey folks like, Aw man, Buckley. This is I'm running for reelection. We're resurfaced in this bike path, and this is karma. She's going to be a great asset to this world when she gets elected.And then he gets down the line, I'd introduce me. And like, doesn't know who I am. Doesn't know how to introduce me. And these two people are like, oh, we know you. And it was just the funniest thing is like, yeah, you have to introduce you yourself. They'd actually didn't know you were the mayor. They have no idea who this person is, but yeah, they know this 24 year old kid you're hanging out with.Nathan: [00:08:24]Nice. Yeah. That's what you get when you build an audience, you know, it works out. Yeah.Ryan: [00:08:30]And that's the power of the internet that you can get to that level of recognition in 10 months, or? Well, he's been the mayor for like four years already. but like he, I mean, he's doing important mayor stuff. He's not on social media building up at all.Nathan: [00:08:45]So let's talk about the last 10 months. So, when, when exactly did you start it and what, like, I'm curious what the path was to the first a hundred subscribers or 260.Ryan: [00:08:55]First send was August 17th, 2020 that sent the, I started running Facebook ads like a week before I sent it. I, I made, I shortened the story a lot on the way in, I didn't just like decide I was going to do it here. I was trying to hire people out elsewhere to do other cities, but I didn't. I didn't know how to hire anybody and I didn't really have enough money to pay him. So I got a cup of kind of close with a couple of people. And then finally, like the last one we were about to start, we're going to probably start writing like the next week. And he's just like pulled out at the last second.He was like, Hey, this is, I'm not going to do this. And so that was just fed up and I was like, I'm going to start that here. So from the time. Told me on the phone that to the time the website was actually up was probably like eight hours. And then the Facebook ads were running a couple hours later. So they would run it for a whole week before I sent the first email, I think I sent the first email to 64 people and I sent the second one to like 120.So the path to a hundred subscribers was not like, you know, super long or grueling or really even tough. It was just like, oh, I'll put up some Facebook ads.Nathan: [00:09:58]Yep.Ryan: [00:09:59]Everyone talks about how the first 100 is super hard and I'm like, No, I just had to pay for him.And I think set of that for 64, I've gone back and looked at this. Almost all of them are still on board. And this is a stupid, crazy fact, seven, at least when I last check this, which was like a month ago, seven out of those first 64 had opened every single email since which just blew my mind.Nathan: [00:10:27]Yeah. so first I'm here is like, when you're paying for the Facebook ads, what was the cost per subscriber? Like how much did it, did it cost to get this off the ground?Ryan: [00:10:35]In the early days. I think those people were coming for like 50 cents, 80 cents each. I was like, this is great. Yeah. So that was great. it's it's more like,Nathan: [00:10:47]$3 a subscriber, I would have been like, okay, that, that makes.Ryan: [00:10:51]No, it's more like, I try and keep it as close to a dollar as possible now. but usually ends up creeping up to around $2. And once it start getting up to like 2 20, 2 50, I know it's kind of time to make a new ad and that one's kind of spent, or just like put it on the back burner for a little while because people, they just get sick of it.And this is a small town, so the same people are seeing it all the time. So really I'm just kind of trying to convince the same people over and over again with different creators. So I still, I keep it under two 50. I, I kinda need to, but I, I would love I, when I'm down in the ones, I love it.Nathan: [00:11:24]Yeah, that makes sense. What's the population.Ryan: [00:11:27]36,000 in the actual city.And then I cover a 10 mile radius outside of that, which opens it up to, I think 200 to 250,000 total, maybe probably close to 200. It depends on which population might be look at. It's not a super well-defined area, but yeah, 36,000 in the city, probably around 200,000 in the next 10 miles.Nathan: [00:11:48]Okay. Yeah. So the city itself, yeah, that's relatively small, butRyan: [00:11:53]Yes. Very small.Nathan: [00:11:54]Yeah.Nice. so growing from there, what, like what worked, has it been almost entirely Facebook ads or what, what are the things you.Ryan: [00:12:02]A lot of Facebook ads, I think probably half the audience has come from that. people are starting to discover it organically, like put some effort into ranking for certain things on Google. So people are discovering it. I think that so a decent amount of people are Googling it directly and I'm imagining the only way they're doing that is if they're free.Telling them about it or if they saw it somewhere. so I still count that as organic cause obviously that's free. If you Google Naptown Scoop, it's like, all you get is there's nothing else that comes up, which is great. and I have a referral program as well. That's accounted for. Almost 20% of the subscribers.So that's a pretty decent chunk as well. And the way that's set up, that's mostly free. I got a lifetime license of viral loops from AppSumo super lucky on that. the first reward is free. It's a birthday shout out at the top of the email and it works well because it's a local place. Like you couldn't do that on a national newsletter, but your friends might see that and you might want your friends to see that.So that's a fun reward. And then at the second level, I have to pay for a mug and the next little I had to pay for a bag. But not many people get to those levels. So like a referral programs or as long if when the first rewards free referral programs can be absolutely awesome.Nathan: [00:13:12]Right? Yeah. That makes sense.Ryan: [00:13:14]And then also I do a lot of work on Instagram, so I'm a pretty big Instagram following.I'm sure some of that has come from the newsletter, but also it feeds the newsletter or people are discovering it through there. I made this kind of cool and like basically made my own link tree or Lincoln bio kind of thing where it's just posted on my website. Apparently Instagram doesn't like those, third party apps.So I'm like, well, they're not going to punish me for linking to my own website and I can just make my own one of those easily. So I'll do that. And I don't have to pay for that.Nathan: [00:13:42]Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. so like, let's go through some of the numbers. W how many subscribers do you have now? What's the Instagram following?Ryan: [00:13:52]Subscribers are 5,500. 70 I think is the last I looked today. it's still, still not big enough where I can, like, I can spout off the exact number. someday we will, hopefully we'll just say like, oh, like 15,000, I don't know, you know, give or take a thousand who cares. but now right now everyone's still matters and I would like everyone to matter forever. but Instagram, I think Instagram is like 4,700 something around there. So, yeah, people always look at the Instagram and they're like, wow, it's so big. And I'm like, but the email's bigger and more powerful.Nathan: [00:14:26]Yeah. Yeah.What are some of the differences that you've seen when you promote something on Instagram versus promoting it in the email? Because I always say that, you know, the email is so much more powerful, but it's fun to have specific examples.Ryan: [00:14:38]Well, it depends what it is. So like just. It depends on what platform you're promoting. So with the newsletter, we had this really cool fundraiser a couple of weeks ago called rock the dock. You'll hear a lot of waterfront stuff. Cause everything Annapolis is a waterfront town and it's like very much focused on that.So rocket dock was a fundraiser by the broad racked, which is like the young person's rotary and they put their tickets out on sale. And I think that sold a decent chunk of them, but I put it in the newsletter and it sold out in like hours. So that was powerful, probably sold like 50 or 60 tickets through that.And it sold out in like four hours and then they reloaded it cause COVID restrictions loosened. And I was like, okay, I'm going to sell it out again. And I don't know that I sold it out again. Like the results were not as directly. they just weren't, they didn't seem that correlated. Like last time it was pretty clear.It was like, No 6:00 AM on Friday morning, it wasn't sold out. And then noon. It was, and it was like, well, you didn't do anything else today to really push it hard. it did eventually sell out the second time as well, but I don't know if it was directly attributable, but that event is another one of my favorite times that we can talk about later.And, a lot of it wasn't true. But so that's when I say like the email can be really powerful if I'd put them on Instagram and just hard to convert, like I can convert you straight from the newsletter to the ticket link for the, for that event. That's a really powerful thing. On Instagram. I can't do that as well.I don't have 10,000 followers, so I can't like do the swipe up stories and store links. Don't work in posts anyway. Like pretty sure Instagram will penalize you on the algorithm if you do use that. Cause all the posts I see with links are always at the bottom of my feed. but like. There's a business that I'm visiting or like, and support, or like a new business opens.Then I see the power of the Instagram where it's like, well, this new business opened up. Here's like an I'll post something about them and say, go follow this business. And you know, like one day they have a hundred followers and the next day they have 300 and it's just a nice head start for them. So I see them be powerful in different ways.I think it's much more practical the way the newsletters.Nathan: [00:16:48]Yeah. Yeah. I like that. when you do on the revenue side, like obviously growing an email list is, is a great thing that being involved in the community, all of that's really fun, but, ultimately this is a business and you're spending quite a bit to grow it. And so I'm curious, what's worked for monetization.Ryan: [00:17:05]Yeah, spending quite a bit to grow it. advertising in the newsletter is the primary source. It's kind of the way that I look at it now. And I don't want to say easy, but it's just like, if you're building an audience, why not? Why not do that? I don't see this as a product people would pay for, it's not original reporting.It's not, you know, investigative journalism. I'm just seeing what's happening everywhere else and then summarizing it. So I feel like people would have a hard time paying for that. I don't want to do donations. cause that doesn't strike me as like a smart business and look for the brand. And that's.So really it will be primarily advertising supported. I have thoughts of how to do a premium subscription, where maybe you get some more content. Maybe you have some deals with local businesses, but that's kind of down the line. We'll see if that happens. That would be great. Cause that could make my subscribers much more valuable than they were an advertising.And then also there's secondary small stuff like selling these shirts and I would like to do some events. So those things aren't going to make a ton of money. They're not nothing.Nathan: [00:18:13]Yeah.Ryan: [00:18:14]So that's.Nathan: [00:18:15]How has it been selling advertising? Like, is it easy to get sponsors lined up and businesses or is that, you know, quite a bit.Ryan: [00:18:23]That's a lot of work and that's actually the first thing I brought someone on to do. cause I don't like doing it and I'm not good at it. And there are things that I am good at. Maybe even great at that only I can do. But that's not one of them. So I brought someone on to do it. just recently she is about to close her first deal, hopefully today or in the next couple of days.So that's exciting. I would definitely, I had to like definitely kind of discount and let her have some freedom on it, but I was like, I feel like it's just more, like, it's better for her to just get that first deal and have some confidence then like say, no, you actually can't give them a discount, but like make sure they know it's a one-time thing.Yeah. No, I want you to be confident going out and doing this again. So that is hard. I've had like pretty full out advertising for the last few weeks. It's this kind of, it was like nothing, nothing, nothing. And then kind of all at once. so it's been pretty full, but it is still just a small audience.I mean, I I'm charging on opens and only 2,500 people are opening each one. So it's tough to charge. You just can't charge a lot on that.Nathan: [00:19:30]Yeah.Ryan: [00:19:31]That's just the stage we're in right now.Nathan: [00:19:33]Yeah. Those early days are interesting. what are you charging, you know, for each sponsorship or, or each open?Ryan: [00:19:41]I like to keep it around. I like to think this is a high CPM also, as I'm working on something now for another local client, like as it just kind of a side hustle thing, I'm seeing what other people are charging and I'm like, wow. I could be charging a lot more. so I, I used to feel bad saying this, but now I don't at all.I charge $70 CPM for a, a primary ad, which has a picture and a lot of texts and it gets your logo at the top of the email. And then I charge $35 CPM for our, I call them the secondary ads. They're just little text ads that have 50 to 60 words, and they're a little bit further down to the bottom of the year.But like I'm, I'm seeing other people who are charging $200 CPM for an email blast. And I'm like, this is not good. Like, cause I'm, so I'm working on, promoting a music festival right now and we need to sell a lot of tickets. So I'm like, well, we gotta pull all the levers. So I sponsored this newsletter blast.It was basically $200 CPM to reach just over 4,000 people. And I look at my, you know, right now, I believe that we have gotten two ticket orders out of it so that, that's not good.Nathan: [00:20:57]We'll have to wait and see how that return on ad spend comes in,Ryan: [00:21:01]Yeah. If, if this, if this is directly attributable to it and the one earlier this morning, was it because one of them was a VIP order for the music festival. So if those are both from it, it looks like we make the money back, but like nobody wants to like a one X return on ad spend,Nathan: [00:21:16]Right. Yeah. That makes sense. It's interesting. If people can charge kind of. Almost whatever on ad spend, you'll see people just make up something and it's like, look, if the market's there and people are buying it then great. And if not, then obviously you need to change your pricing, change your offering, something like that.Ryan: [00:21:35]Yeah, it's this like black magic that nobody really knows how to do. Like there's no real formula. You'll like Google it and you'll see numbers and stuff, but like everybody's charging different things. And it's, I feel like the advertisers that I'm working with are a lot less sophisticated than I thought they would be.Like when I advertise something I'm like, all right. Like I look at that blast and I'm like, I'm paying. $200 per thousand people. I'm going to reach, I'm going to reach 4,500 people or 4,000 people. Like I need to make X dollars back on that to consider it a success. And I'm like expecting all my advertisers to come in and be the same way.But I've actually only had very few ever who looked at it and they were like, yeah, we think the math works for us here. Most of them were just like, oh yeah, well you have 5,000 your list. And I'm like, yes, but like not all of them are going to read it. And they're like, no, we do have 5,000 people on the list.That's not the numbers. You need to care about 2,500 of them. We're going to see it, not all 5,000. And they're like, yeah, I don't care how much it costs. And I'm like, okay, you guys. So we actually just took a provision out of the contract where I used to put it in like, Hey, this is based on this amount of impressions.And if you don't get it, you'll get a refund.And, I was like, nobody cares about this. So I just took it out and I was like I'm not gonna, if I. Yeah, punish myself for something that my advertisers don't care about. If there's happy with their ad spend and the return they get on it, even if it's just from a brand building perspective, then who am I that say they can't spend their money with me? Or should.Nathan: [00:23:04]Well, I think about the, some of the groups that have advertised in from Boise, you know, you get like the local chamber of commerce or like the, There's a first Thursday, like series downtown. So it's like a concert and, you know, vendors coming out and that kind of thing. And it's beautiful promoting that.And they're like, look, we're just trying to drive awareness for it. We're not actually like, there's no click back to a ticket sale or something like that. So they're just like, just promote it. And, you know, in this case, like we only have a thousand people on our, on our local newsletter, but, you just not into dollar amounts.Really register. And so they're just like, yeah, a hundred bucks, 200 bucks, 500 bucks. I don't know. It kind of rounds to the same number,Ryan: [00:23:50]And that's the thing that I can understand, because I can't afford to do that with, with my business. Now it's like, if I'm spending. $450 on Facebook ads over these next two weeks. I need to know that I'm going to get 225 people out of that to read the emails, at least. And I don't like I don't have money to go in and put a banner up at our local golf tournament.Like I need to, I'm like very, very, very much performance driven on advertising right now. And so I just expect that everybody who wants to advertise me is going to be feeling the same way. Cause I think they should be okay. They're not. And so I have to get used to selling that. And really now I don't so much because I've got somebody doing it for me, but that was definitely something I did not expect.I was like, everyone else is going to be super concerned about what they're getting out of this. And they aren't, some of them are, but, but aNathan: [00:24:40]Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious. Is there anything offline that you've done or like you mentioned the golf tournament, right. As something that you're not doing right. Like for our newsletter, I thought about, should I be putting a business cards? Should I be, you know, like, are there things in person to try and get subscribers or is like, you know, Facebook and other social ads, the best way to go.Ryan: [00:25:00]I mean, I think those are the best way to go from a. Getting a lot of people on perspective, but from the quality of subscriber perspective and from building a community perspective, the in-person stuff is absolutely the best way. And I have, I've got business cards right here. I just like pretty basic on the front, put on the back.They've got the QR code to sign up. So I hand out those basically I need somebody to go somewhere and meet people. I'm not just like handing them out, for the heck of it. Like, I'm not, I'm not like the guy on the streets. He was just like here. but if I meet somebody and they like ask what I'm doing, I'll be like, yeah, here's a, here's a business card.You can sign up on the back. And those people, they. They always tend to be, or not always, but they normally tend to be very good subscribers and those are the people that tend to respond to the newsletter. And then the source time they get it and they're like, Hey, like, I'm so glad you did. Like, I really liked this great meeting you.So that's like the best way. I think that's, you know, the classic story adage, like do things that don't scale. I can't get out there and get every person on the list. But when I do get the person on the list, cause they meet me and they liked me and they like, they get my business card. Then I think those people turn into really good subscribers.Nathan: [00:26:23]Yeah, that makes sense. What are some of the things that have been like really hard, a lot more challenging than you expected in getting this started? When you go from last August to now, you know, what was a lot harder than you expected?Ryan: [00:26:35]That's a really good question. nothing pops out originally, like immediately, and that's not just because nothing has been hard obviously, but. I guess I didn't really go into this with that many expectations. Like I didn't go into this expecting it to be super hard or super easy. I just kind of went into it, expecting to build the product that I wanted.So yeah, nothing was really like that much harder than I thought. it's just kind of all been hard, I guess. sometimes it is pretty hard to keep going. Right. We're not the only one doing all the things and I have to be out at all the events and then come home that night and write the email every once in a while the thoughts creep in when it's like, Hey, you know, you could just not send this email tomorrow.Nobody would care. And you're like, no people would care. Not maybe not that many, but like, I can't do that. I've done 122 in a row now, and I'm not going to stop now. I've never missed one.So I think that's probably. I have never. And this maybe it's just because I haven't really done a lot of super hard things in my life, but I've never really done anything where I was like, besides maybe even playing sports in high school and you're at like a hard practice or something where you're like, I want to quit this regularly.Like in college, I never thought about dropping out. Cause it was hard. I never dropped a class. I never like just stopped going to a class at my last job. I never. Just kind of quit on a project. I did quit the job to go do this, but like, that's, that's a little bit different, but this is something that I look at.And then like a couple of times a month, I'm like, man, this is really hard. Like just as a general thing overall, like you could quit right now and your life would get a lot easier. and then I. Very important phrase to me. I write at the top of my list every day is don't quit every day. cause I don't need the reminder every day, some days I'm like I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.And other days I'm like, I just want to go to bed right now. And it's not like a, an unreasonable time to want to go to bed. It's like 2:00 AM and I'm not done working yet. And it's not like I'm just doing busy work. It's like, no, I'm not done writing the, email yet. And that has to be out at 6:00 AM the next morning.Those are the times when I'm like, I really want to go to bed. I could quit this. But I don't let myself,Nathan: [00:28:55]Yeah.I think that's something that a lot of content creators can relate to of like you set this expectation and you're meeting and consistently, and like, you know, whether it's a weekly or three times a week email or anything like that. But then the, those moments come where you're like, ah, I actually don't like, maybe I want to have done it, but in this moment I don't want to do it anymore.Ryan: [00:29:16]Yes. They've probably been less than that. I mean, honestly, probably less than five of those times. Like I've written 122 emails, probably only five. I've not wanted to send. And I have a secret for when that happens. I just put on, it was like a couple of songs that I really like, and I'll just put them on repeat over and over again.But these headphones on and turn them up real loud and just right into it.Nathan: [00:29:38]Yeah, that's a, that's an important skill to be able to, you know, force yourself to power through and finish the task.Ryan: [00:29:45]Yeah. I mean, if you don't quit every day, you're going to get where you want to go. I guarantee it.Nathan: [00:29:50]I have create every day as like, it's been like a slogan or a mantra for a long time, but I also like just don't quit every day. That's awesome.Ryan: [00:29:59]It's kinda just like show up, but I don't. Like saying show up every day. Doesn't really imply. It doesn't really like inspire me in the same way. Cause when I think about showing up, I'm like, well, you can just show up and kind of like go through the motions and like just be there.But like don't quit every day makes it sound like you're really pushing every single day and don'tNathan: [00:30:22]Right.Ryan: [00:30:23]That.And I promise if you don't do that, you don't quit every day. You'll get what you want might take a long time, but you will get it just by the definition of the word quit. If you don't do that.Nathan: [00:30:33]Yeah, that, I don't know. I never thought of that before, but how show up is like, you know, put in some effort, I guess, but really that when you say don't quit, itRyan: [00:30:44]Show up, doesn't inspire the same confidence.Nathan: [00:30:46]Yeah. Cause it's like, you're really putting in effort if you're actually thinking about quitting.Ryan: [00:30:52]I've never actually until really this year.Getting a tattoo of anything. But if I ever were to get a tattoo, I'd want to get don't quit. Every day I write on my forum there, like it's, you know, Casey Neistat and how he's got the do more tattoos right there. I always saw that. And I was like, that's a really cool tattoo, but I can't just copy his, what would I put if no, I'd get don't quit every day. I think there's enough room.Nathan: [00:31:16]Yeah,Ryan: [00:31:18]I that's like the only thing I'd ever thought about, maybe getting tattooed on myself. I don't know if I'll ever do it also because tattoos are just expensive, but also like, I feel like that's pretty sensitive area and tattoos hurt a lot, so there's no reason to do it. I can write at the top of my, to list every day and it's just fine.Nathan: [00:31:31]That'll that'll work.Yeah. So as we're talking about like this, this journey of a local newsletter and everything, one, we're not overly glorifying it, which is good. Cause I'd hate for us to come in and say like, everything's amazing. And then someone starts and they're like Ryan and Nathan, you didn't tell me how hard this is.So at least we're saying how hard it is, but I'm curious. So someone's starting from scratch, or if we want to use like my newsletters, this specific example at like one fifth, the size of yours, what's some of the advice that you would give, maybe we'll go first, starting from scratch. And then second, like baby traction.Ryan: [00:32:05]Starting from scratch. I'd say like, just do it. I did not know if anybody was going to care about my newsletter. I was like, I'm just going to write this. I'm going to get it out in front of people and I'm going to start writing it. Everyone, I think likes to build up the. the. process where it's like, I have to have it all figured out before I start doing it.Now, just do it. I look back at the first newsletters that I sent and I laugh and how bad the writing is and how bad email template looked.Nathan: [00:32:32]Yeah.Ryan: [00:32:33]Everything looked. And I think if you don't look back at your work a couple months later and laugh at it, then you're not improving fast enough. Like you should look at it and be embarrassed because then you'd look at your current work and you're like, this is much better than that.And then hopefully the same thing happens again in six months. So just get started. You're not going to be perfect right away, no matter how much you prepare. and you're just going to get behind by not starting. So first advice would just be to get started. second advice would be don't quit every day. But then also third advice. And this is really for any, this is not specific to a local newsletter. I would say this to any newsletter, any brand anyone ever, is just be responding. That's a great thing about an email newsletter is that people can answer it. I can reply to an email because it's just a regular email answer.Every single one of those, even if it's like somebody saying that they hate you and they hope that you get dropped your ice cream cone the next time reading it, respond to that and just say, Hey, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like, sorry you feel that way about the newsletter. I always respond.That is the biggest, most common. Not a compliment, but comment I get on the newsletter is like someone will respond with a clarifying question about a story I wrote and I'll answer within a reasonable time, like a couple of hours sometimes within an hour, always within 24 hours. And they're like, almost always the responses unless they've responded before.Wow. I didn't expect you to answer. And it's like, wow, that's the baseline. That's the hard to beat at all. Because most brands they don't answer. And so if you do. It's really not hard to set yourself apart because the expectation is that you won't, so you don't even really have to answer the question fully.I get. And I'm like, I'm a huge, I don't know if I'd say perfectionist, but like, I have a very strong idea of like how I want to do things. Yeah. How I want to deliver results. So some have responded to actually a meme. I posted the other day making fun of how, like, none of the restaurants have employees right now, and they're all hiring and this person responded to it and was like, Hey, like, do you know any restaurants that are hiring?I actually like, I'm really looking for a job. And so in my mind, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to get your list of every single restaurant in town that's hiring. And then that's hard, right? Like that's a lot of work. So I.Reaching out to a couple of friends of mine who own restaurants or work for restaurants like higher level positions, like Izzy restaurant hiring, et cetera.I think I said our list of like eight restaurants that are hiring. And, there are our tourism board has a list of restaurant jobs, which is pretty cool thing they do. And I sent her this and I'm like, This is not good enough. Like if I'm grading my performance here, I'm giving this a C minus, like this is a passing grade, but just barely.And then she responded and she was like, oh my gosh. So thankful that you did this, like, I didn't even expect you to answer. This means the world to me. And I'm like, okay. So for her, like, this was an, a plus, but for me it was a C minus. So it's like, you don't need the bars, the high, just answer it.Like I said, you don't even have to fully answer it the way that you think it should be.Just answer your fans or your readers or whatever they are. And, like I said, the bar is not answering. So just by answering you're way above it,Nathan: [00:35:49]Right.Ryan: [00:35:49]That's probably like, most are probably my top three tips I'd give to anybody. It's funny because none of them are really actually related to writing news.Nathan: [00:35:57]I think that's how life as a creator goes. Like, it's all about the other things than the actual, like the exact work that we do every day.Ryan: [00:36:05]Yeah.I mean, I definitely have like tactical tips of how you read a newsletter too. Like proofread it out loud, like reading the words out loud. That's a great way to catch typos. but I think that's less important than just first of all, starting second of all, not quitting and third talking to your people because that's how you build up. Like I fully believe that if a competitor came in with more money and more people and they try to do exactly what I'm doing, and that was the difference, they didn't do that. Sure. They might get any new readers, like anybody who has never heard of me, that they somehow reached with advertising or just reached first.They're probably going to go to that new guy. That's great for them. But I mentioned that very few of my people would actually jump ship and go. Because they know that when it's eight o'clock on a Friday night, and I don't know how you scale this up. Cause I don't know if I can expect employees to do this same thing, but like when it's eight o'clock on a Friday night and you messaged the Instagram account and say, why is my favorite pizza place closed?And I answer, cause I happened to see the Instagram posts from the pizza place about how they're up and broke and then there'll be open the next day. Like you get an answer then, but, and so you're not going to leave that brand for someone doing the same thing. It's not going to answer you. It's just, I mean, it's the best. To build up loyalty. And it's not just fake, like by doing that, like forcing yourself to pretend to care about the people and I actually care. But if you did pretend to care and you still did that, I think you'd find it really hard. Not to actually care after a few weeks of trying that out.Nathan: [00:37:33]Yeah. I think you're right. I'm curious more about the journey, say from a thousand subscribers to 5,000 and I can ask totally selfishly as, as a, you know, I'm casually working on the same thing. what are some of the things that worked in, in that? Was there anything different or was it just more of keep doing more of the same and just give it time?Ryan: [00:37:55]A little bit more of the same. it was, you know, refined techniques on Facebook ads and the creative use there. So like in the beginning I was just doing stock photos. Then they started to perform really poorly, even when I would make new ones. And I was like, oh, what's going on here? And so I started get some feedback from some people in the town that were like, everybody knows that person doesn't live here.Everybody knows that picture. Wasn't taken. Like try something that's a little bit more authentic. And I was like, okay. So I did now I do. And this works really well. I just walk around the downtown area and talking to my phone, selfie style and film, these little punchy, quick little ads telling people to sign up for this thing.And they knock it out of the park. Those things crush. I can get my cost of acquisition down below a dollar again. So refined techniques like that, just kind of getting better at Facebook ads. I'm getting better at Instagram. Like. What people like and what they don't like. Like I used to post some stuff that just, it was useful information.It was like I'm posting the live music schedule from the newsletter on the Instagram. And it's useful. That's, that's a lot of people's favorite part of the newsletter, but on Instagram it just performs horribly. And so it was learning like, okay, don't do that. Even though that's useful, don't put that there.And then trying other things. I didn't do memes for awhile. And then I started doing meetings and I like started getting a ton of engagement on my Instagram. And I was like, okay, names are good. You know, I think Elon Musk said, maybe this is something just randomly attributed to him, but like he who controls the beams controls the universe and it's just like such a good way to communicate right now.So I started doing that in the engagement shot through the roof, and then I was like, there's this. Just other newsletter that does exactly what we're doing called hate Kingston for Kingston, New York. And, at the beginning, they actually copied me so bad that if you would respond to their welcome email, it would email me.And we're friends now it's, we're we're friends and it's all good. I told them like, Hey, I copied everything I've ever done. So like, I'm not mad about this. You just need to fix this because your people are trying to email you and they're talking to me and, and, and they intended to talk to you, but they do these, they started doing these great local focus meetings.So it was like, Yeah, all the regular meetings that you see, but with a local twist and I started seeing them, I'm like, this is incredible. The guy's name is Chris, who does it? I was like, I love this Chris. And he was like, well, just feel free to steal any of them. So I started like using some of their templates and then kind of making my own things.And once I started doing local means versus like just general memes, my, and I only do it on stories because I've learned the hard way that they do not do well on the feed for me. Cause that's not what people are used to. but once I started putting those on my stories, So the engagement had already been up a ton because of regular means, but month over month, it went up 500% the the local ones were just so much more sticky and it's so much better.So things like that, it isNathan: [00:40:42]There an example of a local meme that, that comes to mind that did really well?Ryan: [00:40:46]The best one ever. you know, so I didn't even really know this until I started looking at the insights. Cause I really don't know much about what I'm doing. I just figured out, I was like, oh,Nathan: [00:40:55]St. John.Ryan: [00:40:55]I didn't even know you could share Instagrams. It's a little bit harder than a post. Like, you know, how the procedures click the, a paper airplane, send it with a story.It's not as intuitive. It's like the three dots I think. And then you click share. So I didn't even know you could share Instagram story, but I started seeing some of these memes get shared. And then there's this one in particular that got shared. I think it was 130 times, which is my next, most popular one has been shared like 20 times.So this one just was incredible and it was, I, I, I don't know anything about wrestling, but I think it was like a WWE match. This one guy is slamming this other guy to the ground. And I just overlayed the words on the guy getting slammed to the ground. It's us trying to have a good time downtown and the slammer, I put the word tourists, because in the summer, Annapolis just gets overrun by tourists.It's, it's incredible. We need it because it's good for the economy, but it also is just one of those things that, you know, you can always make fun of and people who live right. Will love it because there's find it so annoying. So like, I, I now know what I can make fun of with the memes just because I know what people like, what grinds people's gears, like make fun of parking downtown, make fun of the tourists, make fun of like the rich people that drive their boats down.This thing, we call it ego alley. it's just like certain things always perform well.And that's kindNathan: [00:42:15]Right.Ryan: [00:42:16]Learn doing it over and over.Nathan: [00:42:18]Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Cause there is that, that sort of thing. And what was interesting to me about it is that means, yeah, not something that I've used at all to grow an audience. So I feel like I'm, you know, as I see, on Twitter or what you're talking about or everything else using that so effectively to grow an audience and spread ideas, I'm like taking notes.Cause I'm like, it's not really my style, but at the same time, like I would, you know, the Boise equivalent of those names, I would die laughing, you know?Ryan: [00:42:45]But it wasn't my style either. And that's the thing is people are always like, are you just like super passionate about journalism and all this stuff? And I'm like, no, I just think this can be a great business. I just like figure out what I need to figure out. So I saw all these other people doing funny memes and I've never been good at internet funniness.Like I've been on Reddit for years, but like, Always posted stuff that I thought was hilarious and nobody else did like did awfully on Reddit. and so I was like, I would see, I saw this, Hey, Kingston guy posting stuff. And I'm like, well, I'm not funny like that though. And yeah, I'm not, or I wasn't. And I say, now I am, because I just started doing it.I wasn't funny in the beginning. And then I started to get a little bit better and it's like realizing what people like and, you know, seeing the music Chris is making and kind of adapting them to be like, maybe I think of it and I'm inspired by it. It's not the exact same meme, but like, it reminds me of a thing here that I can make fun of in a similar way.And so I just did it and got better. And I wasn't good when I first started. And that's, I mean, this is the thing that everybody needs to know about just about life is that most things you're not going to be good at when you first started. I, I had this, my friends in college used to always say, like, I was good at everything I did.And it used to drive me nuts. Cause I knew it wasn't true. I was like, no, I'm not. And then I started looking at it and I was like, yes I am. But that's only because I only do the things I'm good at. So like, yeah, I'll go. But you want to play ultimate Frisbee. I'll go. You invite me out to play soccer. I'm not.And so I only do things I'm good at, so yeah, you do think I'm good at everything. And the first thing that got me out of that comfort zone was rock climbing because I love Heights. I'm like the exact opposite of the fear of Heights. I love standing on top of a thousand foot cliff and looking down it's, it's, a weird thing.It's maybe a problem. I don't know, but I always wanted to like rock climbing. I've never had done it. I just thought I would love it. And we had a wall in our school. And so I just started doing it and nobody's good at rock climbing when they first start, because it's really hard, never use the muscles like that.It's just really tough and different. And I was like, no, I want to be good at this because I know I'm going to love it. And so that was really the first thing I ever did where I pushed through being super bad at it.And then actually got quite good at it. And haven't done it in a year now because living where I'm living and I probably lost all those skills, but like, that was really what taught me.You're going to suck when you first. And then just over time, you suck less and less.And so I'm super thankful for rock climbing one, because it's really fun. But two, because I do think it's part of why I am who I am todayNathan: [00:45:23]Yeah,Ryan: [00:45:24]Because I don't mind being terrible at something now. I think it's funny.Nathan: [00:45:27]Well, and then you'd be terrible at it for long enough and you get good at it. Just don't quit.Ryan: [00:45:32]Yeah. Just don't quit every day. You're going to get good at it.You're going to get what you.Nathan: [00:45:36]So you started, like you got into the local newsletter idea that you're going to start at in other places and that didn't work. And now, so you started it in your hometown. What, like where do you go from here? Are you now, like, now that you've got traction, they use that going back out and saying like, let's start it in other cities or are you just looking to scale this one?What's the path.Ryan: [00:45:57]No. I want a, what I always tell people is I want a hundred days. And, you know, in the next 10 years, I want to own a hundred of these cities, which is kind of crazy. It's huge. It's a big number, whatever people would say, it's impossible. I don't believe them. the, the only problem that I have is the resources like w obviously I can't go write a hundred newsletters a day, and I don't have the money to pay people and I don't have the money to grow them.So I'm looking to get that somehow, whether that's through creative, New ways to monetize this one to get bigger than it should be with just advertising or bringing on partners or investors. I never liked the idea of going out and raising money, but I realized now that like, yeah, that's pretty much the only way to get where I want to go in 10 years.Otherwise it's probably going to take 40 or 50 and, I just don't. I love this and I absolutely love it. I'm willing to work super hard at it, but like, I don't really want to work on this super hard for the next 40, 50 years. I don't, I don't see that being sustainable. Like I am exhausted the last 10 months.I can't like you couldn't do this for 40 years, 50 years. You, you would, you would die. You'd have no friends. Like it just, it's not sustainable. I've heard a great quote. I think it was Jason. Calacanis saying like a startup is compressing your work life or your working career. As few years as possible by working as hard as possible.And that's, I'm definitely not afraid to tell people. It's like, that's what I'm trying to do here. I want to be able to be done with this in like 10 years, if I want to be, if I don't want to be, I can keep going, but I want the option to be like, no, in 10 years, I'm good on money and I don't have to do this.So I don't want to cause I'm just going to be so tired.Nathan: [00:47:43]IRyan: [00:47:44]You get that. You're building a company in the same way.Nathan: [00:47:47]I feel it deeply more so than I believe I feel it deeply. So as we look to, or as you look to expanding into another city, how would you go about that as the first step to, to hire a writer there, find some local what's the process.Ryan: [00:48:02]The first step would probably be to hire somebody to write in Annapolis and to do what I'm doing so that I could then spend more time. Focusing on somebody and ideally, you know, if the money's there, it'd be great to hire somebody for an Apolis at the same time as the second city, because then you could train them at the same time.I'm like, just train them how to do what we need to do. And then we can set the person in Indianapolis loose and then go to the next city. And I can spend a little bit more time getting that one. Rolling. so ideally, yeah, the first people that hire a writers, I think, that's kinda like, I don't mind I can handle doing the growth stuff and I can, I can do that.That's fine, but the writers are really, I mean, that was a key piece of it. That's like it doesn't happen without the writers. They are the most important part of it. And that's like the priority as far as getting the money. We'll see what happens. There's I have a actually pretty large meeting about that on Thursday.So we'll see how that goes.Nathan: [00:49:02]Fingers crossed.Ryan: [00:49:03]Yes, fingers very much crossed because I've had several people reach out, approach me and say, you know, we'd like to get on board with what you're doing here. And, none of them I've been excited about until this one. So we'd love nothing more than to announce in the next couple of months that I have a really cool new partner and, and, and everybody will know who they are because they are a big.So I would love to do that, but we'll see if that works out fingers crossed prayers. If you believe in that, I don't know what you believe, but I'm definitely praying for that.And, yeah, I've really, I used to be like, no, I'm just going to bootstrap it. I'm going to go all the way. I'm going to bootstrap it.But now I'm like, no, to get it where you want to go, you need money. And actually getting outside money is not evil. You can still do whatNathan: [00:49:47]Right.Ryan: [00:49:48]As long as you get the right money, then you can, you can do what you want.Nathan: [00:49:52]Yeah. That makes sense. Thinking about number of subscribers and like the thing with a local newsletter that you always run into is that it does have a fixed, fixed reach to it. Write of, you're trying to reach a specific population. Where do you think, like maybe first what's your goal for the end of this year for number of subscribers and then where do you think it starts to cap out where you're like, okay, maybe I've got actually everyone who wants.To follow this. And if I could get to this number, then I feel like I had market saturation.Ryan: [00:50:26]Goal for this year is 12,000, which is just about done. Now, it was 25,000 and I was like, that's stupid. You're not going to get that. and I very much am an optimist and don't believe in telling yourself what you can't do, but I was like, no, you need to be realistic. And if you make 25,000 your goal, just with the money that you have to spend on acquiring customers, like, you're just going to feel like you failed this year.So make a more realistic goal and even getting 12,000. Yeah. So it's kind of on track for that. It should, if it was going to do that though, it should have been at 6,000, like the 1st of June. but we're not, not quite there yet, so, but, but it has been like starting to hit that exponential curve.So like, I think that the rate of growth will increase because of organic growth and the search stuff is starting to pay off And the social keeps getting bigger.So I think though that probably 40,000 is like the top, top, top. You're not going to get anyone more. 40,000 of those 200,000 that could read it. That would be pretty insane. Market penetration.Nathan: [00:51:29]One thing that, add Sam part from the hustle on, we spent a little bit of time in his episode talking about local newsletters and that kind of thing. And one thing that, he said that was interest. Cause I was framing it as a total market size of being like everyone who lives in Boise or the Boise area.And he's like, no, no, no. It's everyone who has lived in Boise is thinking about living in voice. Boise has family in Boise, or is like, you know, has ever lived in Boise, right. It's people who have ties that he brought up that, you know, the city that he grew up and he's like, I haven't been back in years, like for any meaningful amount of.But I still like, oh, I know that neighborhood. And I see it in the news. Right. Like I still pay attention to that. And I thought that was interesting that actually the, like the market size could be quite a bit bigger than we think we'll see how it actually plays out.Ryan: [00:52:18]Yeah, I think that's a definite thing to be aware of. I, I know Sam and I know that Sam. Likes to talk. And so he will say things like that and just be super confident in it. And he will make you believe that as you can run through a brick wall, cause he's really good at talking.I think that is less of a factor. He would probably have led you to believe there. That's definitely true. I have people that have, they tell me, they reach out and they're like, Hey, my, I read this. Cause my son's at the Naval academy or I read this cause I used to live here and I moved away or I read this cause I have a second house here and I spent half the year here or 25% of the year here that does happen.But I don't think that's going to swell the, the list size from like, oh yeah, it could be 40,000. If you really get your penetration to be like, no, it could be 80,000. I think that's more going to be. You know, you could get 40,000 Macs in the area and maybe on top of that, you could get another 10%. And that would be like pretty intense because the thing is, you're not searching those people out.You're not going out and advertising for that. You're all you're relying on. There is people to move away and keep reading or to send it to friends who used to live there, send it to family. That's really what you're relying on. And I just don't think that's going to grow as fast. Cause you're not trying to do that.And you can encourage that, but when you encourage something, how much are your subscribers really going to do it? I always write a different encouragement at the very bottom of email every day to share it with somebody new, I have written 122 emails. I've written 122 different things. So it's been like, share it with your plumber, share with your electrician, share it with someone today who was a state championship athlete. Last week. I had one who was like, share with the person you're going to call it a zombie apocalypse. So you could definitely do something like that where it's like, Hey, share this with someone who used to live here. And actually I probably will doNathan: [00:54:10]Right.Ryan: [00:54:10]Cause I'm running out of ideas. I don't think it's going to be as big of a factor as we think,Nathan: [00:54:15]Yeah. No, that makes sense. It would be a 10, 20% lift on the total that you could reach. I think I thought of it because, right. Yeah. I thought of it because. Of the number of people like you do a filter and you know, I'm using ConvertKit for my newsletter. Of course, it'd be weird if I use anything else, but, you know, you do a filter down by location and see like, oh, 80% or 60% of whatever of our subscribers are in the Boise area.But then I'm like, what are the rest of these subscribers doing? You know? And, and some of them are friends and other people, but as I talked to more of them, I realized like, oh, you're thinking about moving here or you used to live here or something else.Ryan: [00:54:54]Yeah.Nathan: [00:54:55]You know, we always wonder, cause Boise has this huge influx of population.If like advertising, like the realtor or Facebook groups or something like that would like somehow targeting the people who are moving here. It would be interesting.Ryan: [00:55:06]When you do it long enough, and you have like a big enough audience, you start to see patterns and, and how things happen. One of my very common emails I get is either a response to the welcome email, or usually a response to, I send an email a week after you joined and just say, “what do you think? How's it going?”A very common, probably the most common response I get to that is, “We just moved here. This is the best resource.” And, so I definitely think that, and that is why I have put a lot of effort into becoming friends with the realtors in the area so that when they do sell houses to people who are moving here, they're either talking about it on their stories on Instagram or their posts, or they just tell them maybe like, Hey, you know, you should sign up for this thing.I could probably start working some connections that I have with people who are giving their clients gifts and is like, Hey, you're giving your people a Yeti mug, get clothes, like my business card. And, you know, I'm going to be interacting with you on Instagram and we're friends and we're pals. So like, you know, I scratch your back when you need it. You scratch mine here.Getting in with the realtors was one thing that I focused my efforts on very heavily, very early, and it has paid off and has the potential to pay off further. So that is a great idea.Nathan: [00:56:22]I like it. Well, I'll have to spend more time with realtors if I'm going to keep growing, or as I keep growing From Boise, because we need to do the same.Ryan: [00:56:30]It's not hard. I mean, just get them on Instagram, follow them, comment on all their posts or respond to their stories. Like that's, it's it's not hard. It's just a lot of consistency. It's just showing up. It's just not quitting everything.Nathan: [00:56:46]That's right.Ryan: [00:56:47]Is a little bit about showing up on Instagram, though. I just get in front of everybody. Like, I like every post that I can find and comment, if I can think of something witty, just because I don't want you to be able to go on Instagram and see like a business in Annapolis and not see, oh, like Naptown Scoop commented, and then you'll see it 30 more times.And you're like, who is this?Nathan: [00:57:06]Yeah. I mean, it definitely works. And then the businesses are paying attention. And then maybe they'll do a sponsorship thing with you? or co-marketing in some way or whatever.Ryan: [00:

CNBC's Ylan Mui joins our anchors this Friday morning to cover the details of President Biden's executive order targeting anticompetitive practices in Big Tech among other sectors. Then, Inside.com Founder and CEO Jason Calacanis joins to discuss the impact of this latest antitrust action. Calacanis, an early Robinhood investor, also shares his thoughts on Robinhood's upcoming IPO. Next, FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips is here to further break down President Biden's executive order and discuss antitrust regulation at large. Later, Benchmark General Partner and Instawork Investor Bill Gurley is here with Instawork CEO Sumir Meghani to discuss the company's latest funding round. Gurley also shares his thoughts on the recent crackdown on tech companies in China. Plus, SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz joins CNBC's Julia Boorstin in her first interview since taking the CEO role on January 1st. Then, CNBC's Kate Rooney covers the performance of meme stocks and crypto, which headed in opposite directions over the past month.

Bakes' Takes Podcast Show Notes Saturday   May 22, 2021   :29 Why I do this—Bobby, Jack, please listen in.   ‘87 crash, journey, technical analysis first, fundamentals second, not right or wrong, just works for me. read WSJ, Barron's Economist, listen to podcasts, devour relevant newsletters, monitor what Google alerts bring. Point you to them, but if you don't want to do that, please know that I'll do it for you and I eat home cooking, I have no conflicts. What are your pain points? Problems you'd like solved? Topics I should cover? Thank you.   2:23 Supercast/Patreon levels. Weekly call with me, teach technical analysis, etc. You help me design the show. Guests I should reach out to. Text like I send to my sons. 610-331-4283.   Not investment advice. Please conduct, and share, your own due diligence.   Bakes' Take—Fan Mail! Calls! Questions! Mike!   Bakes' Take –   Please share this with your RH or RR friends, send your other stocks/ideas and I will offer strategy for them as well. Please stay tuned.   3:55 Bakes' Takes—My Themes/Groups   GBTC—on 200 dma, didn't break, despite Elon/TSLA, China, IRS, Fed. Calacanis on China worth a listen, podcasts of the week. Keep small %. Perspective—bought last year at $15 doubled, took original investment out, 2021 $32-$58.22-$30.10, still a double, pure profit. Why I am not freaking out.   8:40 Bought Global X Silver Miners/SIL—10% of portfolio, would you like same text I sent to my sons? High volume breakout. Could be reaction to cryptos swoon. Gold has perked up too, inverse to crypto.   10:10 TBF--Bond prices didn't go down on 4.2% inflation news. What if Fed wasn't buying $80B/month? Still making money, holding, but watching.   Bakes' Take—   Bakes' Takes-Gray Swan, new segment   Bakes' Take—Podcasts of the Week!   11:40 https://thisweekinstartups.com/emergency-pod-huge-bitcoin-correction-robinhood-ipo-rumors-squarespace-direct-listing-e1219/ Jason Calacanis—5:00 China—make Jack Ma disappear, persecute religion and enslave them, roll over young people with tanks. Do you really think they can't kill bitcoin, stop mining, not use in transactions? Don't be naïve. Won't kill off bitcoin, but wall off 1B+ people. National security risk, reserve currency threatened, US gets more restrictive. Banned banks and financial firms, investors stop trading in crypto. Don't forget they are Communists!   Ooh La La https://www.audible.com/pd/601-Monty-Moran-Former-Co-CEO-of-Chipotle-on-Building-Culture-Podcast/B094Z6H15W 14:44 Travis Chappell—New book-Love is Free, Quac is Extra! What can I give?, Don't listen to words so much,  etc.   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-tesla-breaks-up/id1073226719?i=1000521699130 16:17 Scott G prediction--Next 30 days SEC, market manipulation crypto, Musk, create Teslacoin, Muskcoin!   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-worlds-companies-wound-up-in-deepening-supply-chain/id1056200096?i=1000521984181 18:03 Ryan Peterson, Flexport—Paying premiums to get on ships, “rolling” common, like bumped from flight. Passed through to consumers, inflation, doesn't sound transitory                                                                                           Bakes' Take—   Bakes' Take—Reporters of the Week!   20:20 Avi Salzman, Barron's Bitcoin's Crazy Week Bakes' Take—   Bakes' Take—Charts/Tweets/Posts of the Week!   Bakes' Take— Newsletters of the Week   23:35 Bear Traps Report, wind, solar not enough, need Nuclear/Uranium   24:42 Bitcoin rolling over, bad for stocks   25:25 NASDAQ looks ugly, tired   26:15 Bitcoin-Head and shoulders top   27:15 Josh Brown, Stimulating the housing market it psychotic Bakes' Take—   28:20 Please also subscribe to my Bakes' Takes YouTube Channel, the audio is the same but the charts that I reference are on the screen. Follow us on Twitter @BakesTakes_ and other social media. Please, please use your voice memo app, tape your question(s) and email to bakes@bakestakespodcast.com or write if you prefer. I will also keep you anonymous is you'd like.   Thank you for listening, Mike Wilson is my producer.   Have a great week. Bakes   Much-needed levity…   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-zIbVEjVpQ 28:50 JP Sears--- Why You Should Put All of Your Money

The world of social audio apps is having a “Big Bang” moment.Can a six-person company find a way to differentiate its product, survive, and win?Our guest, Zeeshan (Zee) Sheikh, is the Founder and CEO of Space, an audio-as-a-service platform that enables you to add clubhouse style audio-chat directly to your product, under your brand, where your customers already are.While working as a Senior Director of Emerging Technologies at Everbridge, Zee had been playing around with an audio app idea since 2018. After several iterations, he caught the eye of Jason Calacanis and other investors, providing enough capital for Zee to go full time in September 2020.Calacanis invested in Space because of Zee’s approach to selling social audio to businesses, rather than hustling to get consumers to embrace it, as Clubhouse, Twitter, and others are doing.For almost 20 years Zee has been entrenched in the emerging tech world, with several entrepreneurial adventures to his credit. His deep experience with leading and building globally distributed teams, process improvement, eCommerce and web architectures and product innovation and architecture make him uniquely qualified to scale Space.Zee shares his fascinating founder journey, including transitioning to a full time founder, details around launching an innovative app in a crowded space filled with heavily funded Big Players, and how he found an ideal lane for his B2B enterprise app that will help him create value in a way the Big Players can't.This is what startup life is all about - woo hoo!!To learn more about Space and try out the app on your website, visit: https://www.joinspace.co​Do you have questions for Zee and the Space Team? Email them at: hello@joinspace.coConnect with Zee and Space on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zxed/​ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/spac...​Twitter: https://twitter.com/join_space​ and https://twitter.com/zxed​ Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande Lyonshttp://andelyons.com​#videochannelforstartups​ #B2Bsocialaudioapp​ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVE​AGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it’s the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17​STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/​Visit Nicky’s CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...​Nicky’s Canva Presentation Playlist: http://bit.ly/Canva_Present_Playlist​GET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter​ CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com​ https://twitter.com/AndeLyons​https://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew​... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/​ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/​ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/​ https://angel.co/andelyons​ TikTok: @andelyons

Jason Calacanis is one of the most influential Angel Investors of our time. He began his career as a reporter in New York City that covered a diverse group of topics such as tech news, pop-culture, and the internet industry. He founded Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc, Mahalo, and Inside.com. He turned down a $20 million offer for Silicon Alley Reporter. Then the dotcom bubble burst, and he wound up with a net worth of negative $10,000. Calacanis bounced back and founded Weblogs, which he sold to AOL after 18 months for $30 million. The Angel Investor for Weblogs was Mark Cuban. Most of Jason's money has been made by angel investing. He placed an early bet on Uber that paid off, and he's now a professional investor with his own syndicate. Calacanis' book is called, "Angel: How to invest in technology startups —Timeless advice from an Angel Investor who turned $100,000 into $100,000,000." Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_mM3tx9O9Zc Introduction music by: LAKEY INSPIRED - Chill Day LAKEY INSPIRED - Chill Day Download→ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/chill-day

On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Courtney Reum Mark Suster Sarah Tavel Jason Calacanis Each investor illustrates a critical lesson learned about startup investing and how it's changed their approach. To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Michael Cardamone Jim Kim Jason Calacanis Each investor discusses a portfolio company that did not survive and why it was that they failed. To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

In Part 2 of our conversation, Jason reveals his "secret master plan" behind the Calacanis empire, as well as how he and his team manage all their various activities and their own productivity. And of course we couldn't resist diving into some behind the scenes stories and hot takes, including a long bet on a future TWiSt - Acquired live show crossover collab. :) You can find Part 1 of our conversation in the main show feed at: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/acquired-special-episode-jason-calacanis

Inside CEO and This Week in Startups host Jason Calacanis talks with Kara Swisher about the future of Uber after its troubled IPO, why one of the tech giants should buy Tesla, and Jeff Bezos' Achilles heel: His lack of generosity. Calacanis, who was an early investor in Uber, also talks about his objections to the current state of tech journalism and punditry, the end of SoftBank’s “free money party," and why Tim Cook doesn’t have the chutzpah to take Apple into the future. Plus: Why the US should ban TikTok, even if the Chinese-owned mobile app spins off an American-run unit. Featuring: Jason Calacanis (@Jason), CEO and co-founder, Inside Host: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything. On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media. On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next. And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon! About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn About Sal's Syndicates: Link to Sal's Syndicate Page Silicon Valley's angel-investing phenomenon Jason Calacanis is our guest. Hear how he turned $700K into a portfolio worth $100 million. We had an inspiring conversation about building companies and investing in them. Highlights include: Sal Daher Introduces Jason Calacanis as his Guest on Angel Invest Boston How Jason Built the Stellar Team that Makes His Success Possible Sequoia Capital Picked Jason Calacanis to Scout for Promising Ventures How Jason Calacanis Turned $700,000 into $100 million Jason Calacanis Once Thought Angel Investing Was Stupid The Odds of Success for Founders and for Angels “…we live in a time when people believe in balance, and they believe in getting Olympic-caliber rewards…but they only want to commit to putting in 40 hours a week.” Jason Calacanis Investment Syndicates versus Funds VC Returns Have Note Been Spectacular “If you want to be active, you can do syndicates…” “My personal goal is to train 10,000 people to be active investors in thesyndicate.com. We've got 3,300 members.” Why Jason Leads Syndicates Despite Having Raised Several Funds Syndicate Members Act as Scouts, Bringing in Interesting Companies Jason Would Not See Otherwise Syndicate Members Can Be a Resource to Founders As His Syndicates Develop, Jason Calacanis Hopes to Match Investor Background to the Needs of Companies “For me, media is my leverage…” Jason Calacanis Success Brings More Success How “This Week in Startups” Podcast Came About The Responsibility That Comes with Success “And I watch my contemporaries, and I hold many of them in contempt for the cavalier nature of which they go through their work. They must take the work seriously.” Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis’ Launch Accelerator – Sam Bogoch of Axle.ai Found It Very Useful Jason Calacanis Recommends “Skin in the Game” by Nicholas Nassim Taleb “Angel” by Jason Calacanis, a Manual on How to Be an Angel Investor How Y-Combinator Plays the Odds Jason Is Building His Organization So He Can Start Delegating Investment Decisions Delighting Your Clients Is Essential, But It’s Not Enough: Luxe Valet The Unit Economics Has to Work for a Company to Make Delighting Its Customers into a Business “I think we could have at least 10 times the number of people participating in angel investing than we do here in the United States”. Jason Calacanis “Start small and start slow. Yes. And you know, it's just like learning how to play poker or blackjack”. Jason Calacanis on Angel Investing Jason’s Advice for Angels & Founders Distinctions Between a Life Style Business and a Venture Business

Angel investor and founder of the popular podcast, “This Week in Startups,” Jason Calacanis walks us through the evolution of the internet. He starts off with his own evolution, growing up in Brooklyn (5:07) and attending college at Fordham University where he originally intended to become an FBI agent but where he'd actually kickoff a lifelong obsession with the internet (9:15).  He opens up about starting a Zine in the ‘90s (13:45), helping Sony realize the power of web pages for musicians (17:02) and landing major deals (like Uber) with Sequoia Capital (19:39). Calacanis also discusses the early years of blogging (21:30), its massive impact on journalism (29:21) and his thoughts on the future of media (32:10). He goes on to explain his philosophy on angel investing (40:27), including training his brain to better understand odds (49:36) and dealing with controversy amid the companies in which he's invested (1:02:30). Finally, Calacanis notes that the next generation of great founders are going to look much different than ever before, warning investors that if they don't represent that shift in their own firms, they're inevitably going to miss out. Tune in for more! For More, Follow Us Here: Fritz NelsonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fritznelson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/fnelson Jason CalacanisWebsite: https://thisweekinstartups.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jason Grow WireLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-wire/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrowWire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growwire/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrowWire/

This is an Inside Podcasting "mini-episode," in which Skye and Inside.com managing editor Kim Lyons discuss what it was like to interview entrepreneur, investor and podcaster Jason Calacanis. If you haven't heard that interview yet, go back and listen to it first, then come back and press play on this installment.  This is also our final episode of season one! See you next season!    

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Persuasion, discipline, and drive is a WICKED combination“I love founders. I love these people; I love entrepreneurs… Boy do they solve a lot of problems and make humanity better, and the state of humanity has NEVER been better.”Even the most impoverished people today are better off than middle class/wealthy people were ~100 years agoJason’s podcast player of choice: Overcast“Spotify and Overcast are the two best”Jason’s favorite podcasts:Against the Rules with Michael Lewis“If you’re on the left, you should listen to Ben Shapiro; if you’re on the right, you should listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast“Jason was a huge fan of Missing Richard Simmons and is bummed at its cancellationCAFE InsiderThe Kevin Rose Show The Moment with Brain Koppelman The Naval Podcast Making Sense with Sam Harris Recode Media with Peter KafkaReliable Sources with Brian StelterThe Tim Ferriss ShowUnder the Skin with Russel BrandRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgIn this episode, Skye interviews entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis. Jason, who is Skye's boss, also hosts two podcasts, This Week in Startups and Angel. Before this interview was recorded, Jason told Skye she could ask him anything — and she took him up on that. The pair discuss:  Jason's rollercoaster childhood; What drove him to get out of Brooklyn; The wild ups and downs of his entrepreneurial career; How he got into podcasting; Why a network TV show featuring Jason was axed; Why Skye thinks Jason is just a teensy bit Trumpian; His favorite podasts. Watch Jason practice Taekwondo as a wee young man here.  And get in touch: Host Skye Pillsbury on Twitter @skyepillsbury Guest Jason Calacanis on Twitter @Jason Subscribe to the Inside Podcasting newsletter here (it's free!) and discover Inside.com's network of newsletters here. 

In this episode, Skye interviews entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis. Jason, who is Skye's boss, also hosts two podcasts, This Week in Startups and Angel. Before this interview was recorded, Jason told Skye she could ask him anything — and she took him up on that. The pair discuss:  Jason's rollercoaster childhood; What drove him to get out of Brooklyn; The wild ups and downs of his entrepreneurial career; How he got into podcasting; Why a network TV show featuring Jason was axed; Why Skye thinks Jason is just a teensy bit Trumpian; His favorite podasts. Watch Jason practice Taekwondo as a wee young man here.  And get in touch: Host Skye Pillsbury on Twitter @skyepillsbury Guest Jason Calacanis on Twitter @Jason Subscribe to the Inside Podcasting newsletter here (it's free!) and discover Inside.com's network of newsletters here. 

In this episode, Inside.com managing editor Kim Lyons interviews Inside Podcasting host Skye Pillsbury about what it was like to make this show. Hear how Inside Podcasting came about, why Skye had a meltdown during a family vacation, what rookie mistakes she made while creating the podcast, and when she’ll feel like she’s a “real" podcaster.

On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following investors are featured: Paul Martino Jason Calacanis Chris Farmer Each investor discusses sectors, drivers and/or trends that may have significant impact in the future and are potentially positioned for outsized-returns.   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

Ask an Angel! Jason Calacanis & Ed Roman answer questions on startup runway concerns, syndicate hit rates, advising best practices, founder updates, due diligence, pro-rata rights, investment legal structures & more

Jason Calacanis in conversation with Shawn Gold at Live Talks Los Angeles discussing his book, Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups: Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000.  The talk took place on August 15, 2017 at the Moss Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Live Talks Los Angeles, visit www.livetalksla.org

Pete Flint, NFX Managing Partner & Trulia Founder, shares insights from entrepreneurship to investing, criteria for $150m seed fund, supporting persistent founders, company-building & culture, targeting markets ripe for disruption, & the power of data network effects

Pete Flint, NFX Managing Partner & Trulia Founder, shares insights from entrepreneurship to investing, criteria for $150m seed fund, supporting persistent founders, company-building & culture, targeting markets ripe for disruption, & the power of data network effects

Rob May, investor 45+ co's & founder Talla & Backupify, shares dealbreakers, successful founder patterns, using scar tissue as entrepreneur to be a better angel, creating Talla's ICO & future of bots, blockchain, & crypto

Rob May, investor 45+ co's & founder Talla & Backupify, shares dealbreakers, successful founder patterns, using scar tissue as entrepreneur to be a better angel, creating Talla's ICO & future of bots, blockchain, & crypto

E17: Clara Brenner, Urban Innovation Fund shares insights from ~50 investments focused on solving our biggest challenges, importance of tenacity, momentum, culture to scale & positive communication with investors

Clara Brenner, Urban Innovation Fund shares insights from ~50 investments focused on solving our biggest challenges, importance of tenacity, momentum, culture to scale & positive communication with investors

On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: -Zach Coelius -Nathan Benaich -Jason Calacanis   Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

Arjun Sethi, Social Capital on bringing skills as a founder (MessageMe, Lolapps) & Yahoo head of growth to early-stage investing, being candid, overcoming hubris, taking methodical risks, & the critical importance of rapid-learning, resilient teams

Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital on being a self-taught VC, creating a rocket ship to fund 64+ underrepresented founders in just 2yrs, launching an upcoming studio, & mastering the art of disciplined investing

Satya Patel, Homebrew, on 80+ investments, betting on founders with mission, solving problems over building biz, funding "phases" not stages, portfolio stars, & the critical importance of boards & organizational muscle memory

Satya Patel, Homebrew, on 80+ investments, betting on founders with mission, solving problems over building biz, funding "phases" not stages, portfolio stars, & the critical importance of boards & organizational muscle memory

Today’s guest, Jason Calacanis, joins host Chuck Feerick to talk about his new book “Angel”, what it takes to be a successful angel investor, and a variety of other topics. Jason is a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of two very popular podcasts, This Week in Startups and Angel. He got his start in the world of startups in New York and his second company, Weblogs inc., was sold to AOL in 2005, after which Jason became a “scout” for top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Since then, Jason has gone on to launch numerous ventures and is currently the founder of a series of conferences that bring entrepreneurs together with potential investors, frequently appears in the media, and most notably is a successful angel investor in over 100 companies, including both Thumbtack and Uber. In this episode, Chuck and Jason discuss: Jason’s earliest role in New York with Silicon Alley reporter and what he learned about entrepreneurship in that process Jason’s first angel investment Why Jason decided to write a book, why now, and why he wants to give away all his best practices and secrets Where Jason says it is most important to be located geographically to be a great angel investor When meeting with a founder, what Jason believes are the most important things an aspiring angel should ask What Jason feels is the best way that angel investors can be helpful to their portfolio companies If Jason thinks that angel investors should stick to investing in the industries they know (e.g. should a doctor only invest in healthcare)? Regarding startup crowdfunding platforms, whether or not Jason feels these platforms are the best place for an angel investor to start and if some are better or safer than others What Jason thinks about ICOs What book, besides Angel, Jason thinks everyone should read Which of Jason’s investments he is most excited about right now Connect with Jason: Twitter This Week in Startups Angel Podcast LAUNCH Festival LAUNCH Incubator Buy Jason’s book, Angel or on Amazon Jason's Private Syndicate Connect with Healthbox: Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick Subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Libsyn

Jeff Clavier, Uncork Capital, on pioneering micro VC, lessons from 200+ investments & 5 funds, strategizing at Seed for Series A crunch, risky ICOs, & the hard-won wisdom of always be raising

Jeff Clavier, Uncork Capital, on pioneering micro VC, lessons from 200+ investments & 5 funds, strategizing at Seed for Series A crunch, risky ICOs, & the hard-won wisdom of always be raising

BoldStart Founder Ed Sim on 20yrs seeding 50+ enterprise co’s, how his father’s fleeing N. Korea shaped his VC, NYC deep tech, & being 1st dollar in to help move founder-product fit to product-market fit to self-sustainability.

As populations grow, and climates change, could cities be our salvation? With the right infrastructure, urban areas or megaregions can be the most carbon & economic efficient habitations. But cities face countless problems, in housing shortages, broken transportation, overflowing waste, and more. With Urban.us, Shaun Abrahamson & Stonly Baptiste seed startups solving for challenges to make our cities better and our futures more hopeful. Shaun & Stonly talk to Jason about what they're working on, why cities are so critical, what they look for in startups, which problems they are tackling, and much more.

As populations grow, and climates change, could cities be our salvation? With the right infrastructure, urban areas or megaregions can be the most carbon & economic efficient habitations. But cities face countless problems, in housing shortages, broken transportation, overflowing waste, and more. With Urban.us, Shaun Abrahamson & Stonly Baptiste seed startups solving for challenges to make our cities better and our futures more hopeful. Shaun & Stonly talk to Jason about what they're working on, why cities are so critical, what they look for in startups, which problems they are tackling, and much more.

In "Angel" episode 10, Jason talks with Matt Brezina, angel investor in over 65 startups, including Dropbox, Cruise & Ring, and also founder of Xobni & Sincerely. Matt shares how & why he got into investing, his critical formative time in YC, the lasting influence of Paul Graham, meeting Drew Houston (failing to hire him, but succeeding in investing in Dropbox down the road...), learning sales from his mom, mistakes letting ego interfere with business, why he loves Twitter, the future of transportation, his belief in the power of founder-builders and investing in their careers...and much more.

In Episode 10, Jason talks with Matt Brezina, angel investor in 65+ startups, including Dropbox, Cruise & Ring, and founder of Xobni & Sincerely. Matt shares how & why he got into investing, his critical formative time in YC, the lasting influence of Paul Graham, meeting Drew Houston (failing to hire him, but investing in Dropbox down the road), learning sales from his mom, letting ego interfere with business, why he loves Twitter, his belief in founder-builders and investing in their careers.

Ask an Angel! It's a special episode of "Angel," with Jason Calacanis & Brian Alvey (Clipisode, LAUNCH) candidly answer the burning questions of investors and those aspiring to be. Picking startups, evaluating founders, due diligence, Syndicates ins/outs, deal terms and a lot more. Listen and learn!   What’s the best way to verify the customers of a potential investment are happy with the product? - Alan When completing financial due diligence what documents should I be asking for/what am I entitled to? - Sheila How can I tell if the founder is the right fit for the company? - Mark “What is the best way to evaluate a founder for persistence?” - David If an idea sounds exciting but I don’t have any experience in the vertical how do I intelligently evaluate the opportunity? - Brian When I invest via an Angel Syndicate is my identity kept secret? Is my name on the cap table? - Kyle I have a great company for your syndicate, what’s the best way to discuss investment opportunities with you, Jason? - Marianne What is the standard carry? What is the minimum investment? - Craig Do you only accept US based companies? - Bill What opportunities are currently available for non-accredited investors? - Pam Re: closing mechanics...should I expect/demand an escrow type closing where all the $ of the round comes in at once?  - Anonymous

Ask an Angel! It's a special episode of "Angel," with Jason Calacanis & Brian Alvey (Clipisode, LAUNCH) candidly answer the burning questions of investors and those aspiring to be. Picking startups, evaluating founders, due diligence, Syndicates ins/outs, deal terms and a lot more. Listen and learn!   What’s the best way to verify the customers of a potential investment are happy with the product? - Alan When completing financial due diligence what documents should I be asking for/what am I entitled to? - Sheila How can I tell if the founder is the right fit for the company? - Mark “What is the best way to evaluate a founder for persistence?” - David If an idea sounds exciting but I don’t have any experience in the vertical how do I intelligently evaluate the opportunity? - Brian When I invest via an Angel Syndicate is my identity kept secret? Is my name on the cap table? - Kyle I have a great company for your syndicate, what’s the best way to discuss investment opportunities with you, Jason? - Marianne What is the standard carry? What is the minimum investment? - Craig Do you only accept US based companies? - Bill What opportunities are currently available for non-accredited investors? - Pam Re: closing mechanics...should I expect/demand an escrow type closing where all the $ of the round comes in at once?  - Anonymous

On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: David Verrill Galen Mason Jason Calacanis   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

In episode8 of "Angel," Jason sits down with Pejman Nozad, Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC. Pejman came to the U.S. from Iran with nothing, and eventually became one of the most successful angel investors ever, seeding 100+ startups including 6 unicorns. Pejman reveals lessons and insights from his journey, starting from his carpet-selling days and breaking into tech by hosting events at the rug store, to moving into venture capital, starting his own firm and backing massively successful companies. Pejman shares the secrets of his process, including staying disciplined, qualities he looks for in founders (desire to make a difference, combined with a healthy paranoia), conducting due diligence, handling failure, and belief in the good will of Silicon Valley, where you can be a nobody, but still make it.

In episode8 of "Angel," Jason sits down with Pejman Nozad, Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC. Pejman came to the U.S. from Iran with nothing, and eventually became one of the most successful angel investors ever, seeding 100+ startups including 6 unicorns. Pejman reveals lessons and insights from his journey, starting from his carpet-selling days and breaking into tech by hosting events at the rug store, to moving into venture capital, starting his own firm and backing massively successful companies. Pejman shares the secrets of his process, including staying disciplined, qualities he looks for in founders (desire to make a difference, combined with a healthy paranoia), conducting due diligence, handling failure, and belief in the good will of Silicon Valley, where you can be a nobody, but still make it.

On Episode 7 of "Angel," Jason talks to Freestyle Capital co-founder Dave Samuel, a former founder (Spinner, Brondell) who brings his entrepreneurial focus to investing. Dave shares what qualities he looks for in startups & products, his love for building teams & companies, the trouble with B2C, raising money in a financial crisis, early internet days including founding & selling the internet's 1st music service to AOL, his innovative smart toilet, why he became an investor, and much more.

On Episode 7 of "Angel," Jason talks to Freestyle Capital co-founder Dave Samuel, a former founder (Spinner, Brondell) who brings his entrepreneurial focus to investing. Dave shares what qualities he looks for in startups & products, his love for building teams & companies, the trouble with B2C, raising money in a financial crisis, early internet days including founding & selling the internet's 1st music service to AOL, his innovative smart toilet, why he became an investor, and much more.

Ben Narasin has a unique view on early-stage investing, quite different than Jason's, and today on "Angel," he shares his proven thesis and dives into a track record that speaks for itself, with over half of his seed companies reaching Series A, and 3 unicorns. Ben explains what he looks for in a startup (teams factors heavily, but not exclusively), the absolute critical characteristic a founder must have to succeed, and executing on the strength of your convictions. Plus, portfolio hits, misses, regrets, and more.

Ben Narasin has a unique view on early-stage investing, quite different than Jason's, and today on "Angel," he shares his proven thesis and dives into a track record that speaks for itself, with over half of his seed companies reaching Series A, and 3 unicorns. Ben explains what he looks for in a startup (teams factors heavily, but not exclusively), the absolute critical characteristic a founder must have to succeed, and executing on the strength of your convictions. Plus, portfolio hits, misses, regrets, and more.

In today's episode of "Angel," Jason welcomes Syndicate leader Zach Coelius, Triggit founder who, only after 2yrs as an angel, has already enjoyed a $1b exit (Cruise, bought by GM). Zach shares his insights as a founder-turned-investor, including finding deals & deal-breakers, hustling & other techniques to be a better investor, advising your way onto the cap table, what stage of product development is the most exciting, the skinny on AngelList funds, his (tremendous) hits & (very few) misses, and, from personal experience, the great respect & empathy he has for entrepreneurs ("startups are like rocket ships into the walls of your incompetence"). Thank you Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

Welcome to the first episode of the "Angel" podcast. In this series, Jason interviews angels about their investment strategies and pulls back the curtain on how early-stage startups get funded. In E1, Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her portfolio successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC. Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In episode 2 of Jason's new podcast, "Angel," Super Angel & Syndicate Leader Gil Penchina shares secrets from his 20 years investing in 200+ startups, including LinkedIn, PayPal, & Cruise. Gil reveals why he became an angel, which founders & verticals to back (& which to run away from), deal flow strategies, tips for learning the game & making your own rules, how to support founders, & lessons he's learned from his greatest hits ... and failures. Thank you to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In "Angel" episode 3, Jason speaks with Andrea Zurek, Founding Partner of XG Ventures ("ex-Googlers"), and angel investor since 2006. Andrea, whose portfolio includes Facebook, Twitter and Box, shares how she picks companies, her ideal terms and valuations, the trouble with TAM and solo founders, deciding when to follow on, how she applies lessons from building Google to help her founders, portfolio greatest hits & misses. Thank you to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In episode 4 "Angel" podcast Jason talks to angel & syndicate leader Ed Roman. Ed describes his journey from serial entrepreneur in Austin to syndicate angel in Silicon Valley, and shares strategies for optimizing for outsized outcomes, developing the right alchemy gut & market analysis, the biggest mistake investors make, his greatest hits & misses, how to tell when a founder will go 10x, how to know when you're a seasoned investor...and much more. Thanks for Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In episode 2 of Jason's new podcast, "Angel," Super Angel & Syndicate Leader Gil Penchina shares secrets from his 20 years investing in 200+ startups, including LinkedIn, PayPal, & Cruise. Gil reveals why he became an angel, which founders & verticals to back (& which to run away from), deal flow strategies, tips for learning the game & making your own rules, how to support founders, & lessons he's learned from his greatest hits ... and failures. Thank you to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In "Angel" episode 3, Jason speaks with Andrea Zurek, Founding Partner of XG Ventures ("ex-Googlers"), and angel investor since 2006. Andrea, whose portfolio includes Facebook, Twitter and Box, shares how she picks companies, her ideal terms and valuations, the trouble with TAM and solo founders, deciding when to follow on, how she applies lessons from building Google to help her founders, best advice for accredited and non-accredited investors, insights on increased opportunity for women in investing, portfolio greatest hits & misses, and much more. Thank you to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In episode 4 "Angel" podcast Jason talks to angel & syndicate leader Ed Roman. Ed describes his journey from serial entrepreneur in Austin to syndicate angel in Silicon Valley, and shares strategies for optimizing for outsized outcomes, developing the right alchemy gut & market analysis, the biggest mistake investors make, his greatest hits & misses, how to tell when a founder will go 10x, how to know when you're a seasoned investor...and much more. Thanks for Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

In today's episode of "Angel," Jason welcomes Syndicate leader Zach Coelius, Triggit founder who, only after 2yrs as an angel, has already enjoyed a $1b exit (Cruise, bought by GM). Zach shares his insights as a founder-turned-investor, including finding deals & deal-breakers, hustling & other techniques to be a better investor, advising your way onto the cap table, what stage of product development is the most exciting, the skinny on AngelList funds, his (tremendous) hits & (very few) misses, and, from personal experience, the great respect & empathy he has for entrepreneurs ("startups are like rocket ships into the walls of your incompetence"). Thank you Audible for sponsoring this podcast.

Jason Calacanis founded Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc, Mahalo, and Inside.com. He made an early bet on Uber that paid off, and he’s now an investor and has his own syndicate. But he had a hard time getting there, including a huge fall from grace when the dotcom bubble burst. Back then, he was worth negative $10,000. Now, he's clawed his way back and generated $100 million. Calacanis told Business Insider’s US Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell about that experience and more for this episode of “Success! How I Did It.”

On the heels of LionTree’s Private Company conference at the New York Stock Exchange, featuring the CEO’s of three unicorns (WeWork, Warby Parker, BAMTech), Alex Michael sits down with author and angel investor Jason Calacanis to get the inside scoop on his new book, “Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 Into $100,000,000.” Hear about Calacanis’s biggest wins (and losses) and get tons of insight into technology investing. For more information and content from the show, follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@KindredCast). Please read before listening: www.liontree.com/podcast-notices.html

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. GUEST: Jason McCabe Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur/Angel Investor/Author Discussing his new book "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups-Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000."

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. GUEST: Jason McCabe Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur/Angel Investor/Author Discussing his new book "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups-Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Angel investor Jason Calacanis talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about his media company Inside, and why it plans to launch a new email newsletter every week in 2017, for a total of more than 60 by year's end. He also chats about his past companies, including Mahalo and Weblogs Inc., and how he became one of Uber's first investors. Calacanis explains his angel investing philosophy, which favors founders who have built something over those who just come to meetings with an unrealized idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week’s Guest: Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller, who is the CEO at Forge Media, joined me to chat on my podcast, This is Affiliate Marketing with Shawn Collins. Episode 17 I wanted to learn more about the real Jonathan, so I asked him a variety of questions I figured he had not been asked in previous interviews. We discussed... His Google rankings Reviewing a business on Facebook Attending a Zumba convention His favorite airports in the world Jason Calacanis His face on a tortilla at SXSW Links from this episode Jonathan Miller at Zumba Convention 2011 Jonathan on LinkedIn Jonathan on a tortilla Jonathan's blog Infamous Sweep the Leg peanut butter stout float Thank you for listening Please leave a comment or feel free to contact me. And if you enjoyed this episode of This is Affiliate Marketing with Shawn Collins, please share it.

I'm super excited to welcome today’s guest - Julie Fredrickson.She is the CEO & co-founder of Stowaway Cosmetics (https://www.stowawaycosmetics.com/) - a venture backed direct to consumer and potentially disruptive cosmetics company that retail their own-brand 'right-sized makeup' that are half the size and half the price of conventional cosmetics. I brought Julie on to discuss how she went about raising capital for a product based business. Before I introduce her; here is a list of some heavy weight investors Julie and Chelsa (her partner) have managed to convince to invest in their idea: Gary Vaynerchuk, Jason Calacanis, Dave Morin (of Path), Paul Sethi, Brian Sugar, Don Hutchison and more... Download this episode's show notes on http://2xecommerce.com/podcast/ep59/    

This week was a sad week in PNR history, with the Cowboys losing and The LEGO Movie not winning a Golden Globe.  But Joe and Robert persist regardless.  In this week's episode, Joe and Robert talk about whether B2B content marketing is a failure, and if FTC will enact regulations regarding native advertising.  In addition, the boys discuss the marketing technology landscape and why Twitter's play into video is going to be huge.  Rants and raves include a super smart post from Medium's Ev Williams and the McDonald's "signs" program.  The #ThisOldMarketing example of the week: Merck Manuals.

Normally we cover bootstrapped products: people who are self-funding the stuff they build. We do this because I’m naturally drawn to bootstrapped companies. For this episode I wanted to go into “enemy” territory: I wanted to talk to the VC community. To do that I contacted Jason Calacanis, an angel investor, and the voice of funded startups on his podcast This Week In Startups. This is part 1 where we delved into the human said of Mr. Calacanis – where he came from, and how he got to where he is today.

GUEST: KEVIN POLLAK, Exciting Day, Greg Meets Another Celebrity, Kenny B, KEVIN POLLAK, No Splenda, Local, Hipsters, Chat Show, Calacanis, Internets, Radio Professionals, Feedback From Geniuses, Crazy Twitter People, Hey Look At Me Disease, Impressions, Talkin Walkin, talkinwalkin.com, Usual Suspects, Juwana Mann, DAWN TAYLOR, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, Show Names, Kenny Depresses People

Justin and Jason discuss life with kids, the Calacanis interview, the mismatch between Jason's voice and face, the status of Appignite and the inherit complexity of the problem, how Justin increased Pluggio's customer conversion rates and why his localization effort was a waste of time, hypothese driven development, the top ten mistakes in behavior change, the lessons learned from TechCrunch's bad review of MinuteBox, the story of how Jason sold his 300 ZX, how Reddit grew 230% in 2010, the lessons learned from Quora, seed stage valuations, Gabriel Wienberg's latest micro opportunity and startup advice from Tim Ferris.

This is the first episode of techZING! where Justin and Jason discuss the following: * Is Twitter useful? There's a high noise to signal ratio. Justin suggests that maybe a Bayesian filter like Paul Graham outlined in “A Plan for Spam” would work. Jason wants to like Twitter, but so far has only sent one twit (or is it tweet). At this point he just seems to find it a little confusing with the disjointed half-sentences. * Justin wonders whether being able to filter for the users who post most frequently on a particular topic would make Twitter more useful. Jason poses the idea of applying Digg-like ratings to individual tweets as a way to solve the signal to noise problem. * Justin tries out Stack OverFlow and gets his feelings hurt when a 21-year old kid with a lot of points down votes his answer to a jQuery question. As a result he wonders if it's really the kind of community he wants to participate in. Jason suggests that maybe he's being a little too sensitive. * Jason mentions the Google Wave Demo given at the Google IO conference and expresses particular interest in the growing support for HTML 5 by Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera in spite of what Microsoft is doing with IE. Justin is impressed by what Mozilla Labs has done with Bespin in their use of the canvas element in creating an in-browser code editor. Justin thinks it's amazingly responsive and that it has a much better feel than Flash-based editing. * Jason describes how he and another developer wrote a custom in-browser text editor for Preezo without using the built-in browser editing provided by designMode and contentEditable (for IE). Instead they trapped every keystroke and mouse event and managed the entire editing process manually. He claims that it was their only choice if they wanted the editing process to work as well as it does in PowerPoint. Jason notes that it was the most difficult code he ever had to write. Justin is duly impressed. * Jason mentions that for drawing Shapes in Preezo they wrote their own cross-browser graphics library that mapped to VML on IE and to SVG on Firefox and Safari. Justin asks whether they could map it to canvas as well. Jason says that in view of the growing support for canvas going forward he would just write to the canvas API and use the ExplorerCanvas Javascript library to convert canvas API calls to VML. He also thinks that the raster graphics of canvas is more generally useful that the vector graphics supported by SVG and VML. * Justin wonders whether doing a startup indeed requires an entrepreneur to work 14 hours per day as Jason Calacanis claims, but Jason disagrees. He allows that what Calacanis says might be true for doing certain types of work, but that he find it's difficult to be productive writing code for longer than about 8 hours per day without burning out. * Justin finds the idea of extreme programming to be an intriguing approach to avoiding burn out. Jason agrees and says that it's more fun and that you write better code with fewer bugs. Jason says that while he's never done pair programming in a professional setting, he describes how he's been pair programming for years with another developer located in Europe using Skype and Ultra VNC and finds it to be extremely productive. Jason wonders why you don't hear more about people trying this. * Justin asks whether you really need a physical office for a startup with all of the collaboration tools now available like Skype, VNC and web-based project management software. Jason doesn't think it's necessary and in fact would prefer to with the smartest people he can find that he enjoys working with regardless of where they might live, even if it's in another country. * How important is to have high quality office space for attracting talent? Justin recounts a story of how a company he once worked for was able to entice a top notch coder simply because they had table tennis. Jason thinks that if you want to attract the best people then you need to provide an environment where people want to spend their time. He tells a story of how his first startup had a great office at the center of a cool area of town (Old Pasadena, CA) and how much fun it was. He says that they were always at work because they enjoyed the space and location so much. * Jason mentions that he once visited a 3D gaming engine company based out of a house in Sherman Oaks, CA, where developers were working in bedrooms, the living room and the dining room. Justin liked the idea a lot, but Jason thought it was kind of weird even if it was just because it was in Sherman Oaks (not that he has anything against Sherman Oaks). * Is it important to be in the Valley in order to be able to find and work with smart people in the web startup space? Justin is concerned that it might be, but Jason isn't convinced that it's necessary and considers that it might actually work against you because you have to compete against other startups for talent. * SWFUpload seems to be a great solution for uploading files and receiving dynamic client side updates (like progress complete). It's powered by a hidden Flash control wrapped by a simple Javascript library. Jason mentions that he had previously looked at various PHP/Javascript only solutions, but found that they either didn't work, wouldn't scale or required installing some type of Apache extension. Justin mentions that jQuery provides support for Javascript file uploading, but doesn't do quite what SWFUpload provides.

"With great power, comes great responsibility," or so Facebook continues to learn. Calacanis is closing his account, Laporte ditched his last week, and "delete my Facebook account" is a top 20 trending topic on Google. Is there a message somewhere in there? Certainly mixed messages still to come. Our guest on the show this week is Frederick Van Johnson, founder of Mediabytes Marketing and host of the popular show "This Week in Photography" on the TWiT Network. Frederick shares his insights on engagement and community-building as marketers struggle to keep up with new tools.

In this special episode, I sit down with fellow Sith dark master Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo.