Name: Jason Calacanis
Twitter User Name: JasonCalacanis
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Twitter Bio:
Founder of Weblogs, Inc., TechCrunch50 and Mahalo. Entrepreneur
More about Jason:
Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health. Prior to Mahalo.com’s launch in alpha in May, 2007, he was an “Entrepreneur in Action” at Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firm, a position he held since December 2006. Calacanis co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL’s Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site. Prior to forming Weblogs Inc., Calacanis was the founder of Rising Tide Studios, a media company that published the magazines Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter. The flagship publication later became Venture Reporter, a venture capital database, and was sold to Dow Jones.
Why you should follow Jason:
Jason has been a leading entrepreneur in the digital space since the late 90’s. He has had some great success and some brilliant failures – all of which he is not afraid to share. Jason’s Twitter stream is a combination of business insight and personal information that revolves around the L.A. Tech scene.
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