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Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161

Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161

Recommended on this episode

ProductRecommended

Chess.com

Chess.com

“just think about how much value is being provided to society”
“it's a hundred dollars a year for this product... they have puzzles and they have tutorials and they've got everything else”— guest
ProductRecommended

Clubhouse

Clubhouse (inferred)

“it's actually a really well designed product”
“you look at clubhouse it's actually a really well designed product and that product is connecting with customers”— guest
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins (inferred)

“that book is amazing and the audiobook's amazing”
“that book is amazing and the audiobook's amazing when he's talking about how fat he was and how he just had to go and keep running”— guest
ProductRecommended

Tesla Model S

Tesla

“elon if you make that car you'll change the god damn world”
“elon if you make that car you'll change the god damn world you have to this company must survive”— guest

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups

Jason Calacanis

“who's an entrepreneur investor author of angel how to invest in technology startups”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guest

Angel

Jason Calacanis

“so many people want to invest and so i wrote a book on that angel and then i do a course called angel university”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

ProductReferenced

Robinhood

Robinhood

“in full disclosure i was an angel investor in robin hood before they launched and when i met the founder vlad”— guest
ProductReferenced

Calm

Calm (inferred)

“the first deal we ever did was com.com the meditation app we put 378 thousand dollars into it”— guest
ProductReferenced

Amazon Prime

Amazon

“you're paying 13 a month for the privilege of shopping at amazon... it's the greatest thing in the world because anything i need you know”— guest
ProductReferenced

Peloton treadmill

Peloton

“my usage of clubhouse is going on my peloton treadmill putting clubhouse on taking a room and just listening”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Purpose Driven Church

Rick Warren

“i read this book by i've got his name rick something um he wrote the purpose driven church”— guest
ProductReferenced

Tesla Roadster

Tesla

“i had my orange tesla roadster and he had his p1 or p2 like the red one that i think is in space now”— guest
MediaReferenced

The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan (inferred)

“it really feels like the dark knight series of films where like some people just want to see the world burn”— guest
MediaReferenced

The Last Dance

ESPN (inferred)

“did you see the michael jordan documentary the last dance... he's so competitive yeah and petty”— guest
MediaReferenced

Game of Thrones

HBO (inferred)

“have you did you watch game of thrones and they're like yeah watch breaking bad like yeah i'm like okay that's about 400 hours”— guest
MediaReferenced

Breaking Bad

AMC (inferred)

“did you watch game of thrones and they're like yeah watch breaking bad like yeah i'm like okay that's about 400 hours”— guest
MediaReferenced

The Queen's Gambit

Netflix (inferred)

“i've been playing chess and and trying to get that going again after watching queen's gambit and i got chess.com”— guest
MediaReferenced

Contagion

Steven Soderbergh (inferred)

“bill gates was banging his fist and jeff skull was doing the movie contagion i mean for two decades people have been banging”— guest
MediaReferenced

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott (inferred)

“you ever see blade runner... do you remember what rucker harrah says at the end all of these memories gone like tears in the rain”— guest