Speaking of video, one of the most fascinating moments near the start of the episode has Calacanis recommending against producing a video component: “My advice to anyone who is considering doing this: Skip the video. Unless you have the resources. Because video is going to be 80-90% of your life.”
This Week in Startups has produced over 1,100 episodes. We might compare that with Joe Rogan’s output of 1,500+ shows. Calacanis describes how the business side got going in the early days. Microsoft approached him with a sponsorship need for the soon-to-launch Bing search engine. When asked about terms, Calacanis says, “I just made it up.” Terms accepted, the show was off and running as a business asset.
Host Dan Granger asked his guest whether he would still do a podcast if there weren’t a business application.”Yeah,” Calacanis replied. “I did it when there wasn’t a business application!” He noted that this Week in Startups has six full-time people on the production side booking guests, creating clips, uploading everywhere, and a bit of light editing.
After these preliminaries the conversation moves into a wide range of social issues including policing, automation, politics, and climate change. There is a tech entrpreneur’s optimism expressed throughout.
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