Jason Calacanis Quotes

There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

If you wanna compete, you've got to get into the original content game.

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

There are lots of channels and lots of companies looking for content, as they say, but it's quite difficult to get things off the ground.

Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

My job, originally, was to write blog posts for their 'HubSpot' blog. They have a business model built on content. Then I was writing e-books for them, and after I came back from L.A., they had this new plan to launch a podcast.

We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and distribution, and really focusing on news, sports, finance - the things that uniquely Yahoo was really terrific at - and really build that whole flywheel.

I always believed in curating content, and the only way to do in our country is by turning producer. So then, I thought, lets turn producer and see how it goes.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

The goal is to become the central hub of publishing, where we have all the written material - user-generated and professional. We want to be the place where people can publish instantly to their audiences... and to get there, it's just about doing things step by step.

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.