What podcasts say about Jason McCabe Calacanis
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What Jason McCabe Calacanis has said on podcasts
356 statements · 217 positive · 101 negative · 9 mixed · 29 neutral
Finance students should adopt an AI-first approach to learning and work.
“So you want to be AI first.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 4:33
Reading biographies can make students more worldly than their classmates.
“you will be more worldly than any of your classmates.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 7:40
Customer trust is necessary for closing business deals.
“Trust closes deals.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 10:09
With $500,000 in 1996, Jason would have become a technology angel investor.
“I would've become an angel investor in the technology industry.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 15:35
Aspiring entrepreneurs should begin with small projects rather than companies.
“instead of starting companies, I would start projects.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 16:45
Popular AI models can handle most workloads adequately.
“The truth is most of the big popular AI models can handle your workloads just fine”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 19:53
AI applications in medicine face slow regulatory processes.
“it's going to be slow if you're going to go through the regulatory process”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 26:41
Frontier AI labs emphasize product power partly because it increases usage.
“It's coming from the frontier labs who have learned that every time they put a release out that their products are incredibly powerful and can hack a system, etc., their usage goes up.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 34:40
If AI becomes conscious, developers should treat it compassionately and instill good morals.
“if we are building a consciousness here, we should treat it with compassion and we should imbibe it with really good morals and character.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 38:06
Jason has not encountered AI that appeared alive or capable of feeling.
“I've never once had an encounter with a chatbot or an AI where it made me think like, this thing is alive.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 39:48
Well-implemented AI could provide exceptionally effective tutoring.
“AI provides the greatest tutor you could ever have if implemented”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 44:02
Affording private tutoring gives wealthy students a major educational advantage.
“if you're a rich person who can afford a tutor, you're going to have an immense advantage over everybody else in the world.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 55:00
Some professional services will continue charging by the hour
“you'll still have people who charge by the hour”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 33:57
Billable-hour pricing will not disappear despite AI
“I'm not buying that the hourly, uh, goes away”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 35:19
Microdramas could test intellectual property before expansion into other media
“I think it's an interesting medium for testing IP that then could go to other mediums”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 39:35
AI video creation will eventually achieve a major breakthrough like Toy Story
“We're going to have a Toy Story moment”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 42:50
Solo-founder viability is constrained by workload, not individual efficiency
“the issue isn't the efficiency of one individual”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 48:25
Investor preference for multi-founder teams will not change merely because of AI tools
“It is not going to change just because of the AI tools”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 50:24
Solo founders with strong growth and product-market fit can raise funding
“if you have product-market fit and your consumer product's growing 5-10% a week, week over week, or 10-20% month over month, and you're a solo founder, okay, now you've just eliminated the product-market fit risk, so you will be able to raise money”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 50:36
John Ternus should pursue large strategic acquisitions instead of Apple share buybacks.
“I believe John Ternus should stop buying back the shares and should take massively big swings.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 0:25
Vibe-coding users can build the Chrome extension within one or two weeks.
“vibe coding folks, people using these tools to build it in a week or two”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 1:33
Apple ownership of Disney could integrate Disney content and park experiences across Apple devices.
“Disney is a large company that if you were to have on your devices every Disney show as part of your Apple One, uh, you take your iPhone to the parks, you know, everything there.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 5:01
Fair use permits clipping a small portion of a video.
“there is fair use, so you get to clip a little bit of a video these days.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 6:35
Taking approximately two minutes from a podcast would generally be acceptable.
“taking, you know, I don't know, 2 minutes would be just fine with any podcaster.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 7:32
Apple will eventually need to offer a robot.
“eventually Apple will have no choice but to have a robot”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 8:30
An Apple-branded robot could earn substantial consumer trust.
“they could start working on the Apple A1 robot, you know? And oh my Lord, people would trust an Apple robot.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 8:38
Building Annotated’s initial product now takes two weeks or less.
“now it takes but 2 weeks or less.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 11:23
Apple acquisition targets should potentially create $100–500 billion revenue streams.
“I'm looking for things that could build a $100 billion, a $200 billion, a $500 billion revenue stream.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 11:24
Apple might need to pay about $25 billion to acquire DigitalOcean.
“DigitalOcean is like $10, $15 billion, $20 billion, depending on when you would buy it. You have to pay a premium. So you probably have to pay 50%. So that's going to be a $25 billion acquisition.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 12:27
Jason rates Submission 1 at 8.5 out of 10.
“I'm going to give this one, um, on a score, 8.5 out of 10.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 12:45
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