ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

We kick off ACQ Sessions with the-behind-the-scenes story of All-in, from the world’s greatest moderator himself Jason Calacanis. ACQ Sessions is our new, occasional “MTV Unplugged” version of Acquired: a great IRL guest, a bottle (or two) of wine, and no script. We talk about everything you’d imagine we would over wine with JCal - All-In, bestie relationships, money & politics in Silicon Valley, who his influences and mentors have been (one surprise - the great Fred Wilson of USV!), what motivates him to keep grinding and why, at age 50+ when he could easily be winding down he’s instead speeding up into the most productive phase of his entire career. Pour a beverage yourself, pull up a comfy seat and join us!
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[@8w494]

The more you get the All-In guys on, the more your channel will grow. More business history deep dives and interviews with awesome people! Thanks for the awesome content!!

[@Sequaloid]

Friedberg next! I feel like he’d fit in so well with his geekiness for technology

[@mugtabafadil4159]

Please get the sultan on!

[@rahimahbintirahim9500]

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[@rahimahbintirahim9500]

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[@sigvardskrongorns8547]

"a16z = Nickelback of Venture" ouch...got to love JCal 🤣🤣🤣

[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

@26:26 - The poorest guy on the show... - The guy with the lowest SAT score on the show... - The guy with the lowest Chess rank on the show... - The guy with the least experience building a team at a big tech company (Facebook, Paypal, Google) - But always the guy who's invested in the most unicorns!

[@pedrovarrgas]

Jason gives me the confidence that the American dream still exists

[@chuckstu]

Well done, gentlemen.

[@greg-73]

Awesome video - this was a great format!

[@dustygreene3335]

Great episode guys.

[@chrispedersen2526]

Loved the new format

[@amythomspon956]

Loved it

[@niccolo4884]

Great video concept, keep it up. Love the furniture! Cable and table management for future videos?

[@rileyandersen7346]

Joe didnt become Stern. He wanted to be Tom Green! He became Tom Green doing his own shit from his own house!

[@simonk493]

Excellent.

[@itszach8952]

You guys need to interview the other 3!!

[@phemartin]

All of them wearing Nikes :)

[@nbme-answers]

22:14 LOL i♥️nyc

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

1:49:00 Jason has two houses: one standard, one ski house

[@eduardo.sobrinho]

Love JCal

[@dustygreene3335]

Irl is the best

[@dawnfmEnthusiast]

25:46 LMAOOOOOOOO

[@MichaelBabich]

Great talk! Thanks. Love Acquired shows. I used to love Jason's show TWIS when it was about conversations with founders. It was really good. Then he turned it into an undifferentiated commodity news cast. It has no new or useful information that wasn't already published elsewhere. He just repeats commodity news with too many words. He traded quality for quantity. Had to unsubscribe. All-in show is very good when they don't discuss geopolitics. They really have zero understanding of it - on the level of Elon Musk's rant about achieving peace in Ukraine by donating part of Ukraine to Russia - that's basically David Sack's horse. They should stay business-centric.

[@jonathanslaughter8542]

My only question for j cal is how heavily invested in Tesla and SpaceX are you?

[@shazanali7195]

Why does he make this all about him. He gloats too much maybe that's why he doesn't have a private jet.

[@arifulislamleeton]

introduce myself my name is Ariful Islam Leeton I'm software engineer and members of the international organization WHO And investors and development economy

[@TheChucky777]

You guys should change the title. ACQ is doing nothing for SEO. Just a suggestion

[@pedrovarrgas]

I don’t they care for it. That’s why I like this podcast

[@Nolimit276]

His ego is through the roof bro