Jason Calacanis

Current

• CEO & Founder at Mahalo.com Inc.
• Board Member at ThisNext

Past

• Entrepreneur in Action at Sequoia Capital
• CEO & Co-Founder at Weblogs, Inc.
• CEO at VentureReporter.net

• Founder, CEO & Editor at Silicon Alley Reporter

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Education

• Fordham University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Jason

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Jason Calacanis’s Summary

1995 Nobody
2000 Media titan
2003 Nobody
2005 Media titan
2007 Nobody
2009 ???

Jason Calacanis’s Specialties:

Finding, inspiring, and keeping great people
Turning trends into businesses
Getting lots of press

Jason Calacanis’s Experience

• CEO & Founder

  Mahalo.com Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; MAHA; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Board Member

  ThisNext

  (Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Entrepreneur in Action

  Sequoia Capital

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2006 — May 2007 (6 months)

• CEO & Co-Founder

  Weblogs, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2003 — November 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  CEO and Co-founder of The Weblogs, Inc. Network with Brian Alvey. More information at http://www.weblogsinc.com.
  
  We publish www.engadget.com, www.tvsquad.com, www.cinematical.com, www.joystiq.com, www.autoblog.com, and 70 other leading blogs.
  
  Acquired by TimeWarner/AOL Oct. 2005.

• CEO

  VentureReporter.net

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1996 — October 2003 (7 years 10 months)

  Sold to Dow Jones.

• Founder, CEO & Editor

  Silicon Alley Reporter

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  October 1996 — September 2001 (5 years)

  Start Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter. Had big events, a fat magazine and then when the dotcom industry consolidated we changed the name to VentureReporter.net and changed the model from advertising to database revenue. It worked and we sold VentureReporter.net on April 11th, 2003.

Jason Calacanis’s Education

• Fordham University

  BA, Psychology, 1988 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Working my butt off as a bar-back four nights a week and waiter five days a week.

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