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Calacanis: journalism and venture investing are the same questions

Calacanis traces his path from magazines (Silicon Alley Reporter, a $12M business) through the dot-com crash and Weblogs Inc. to angel investing, arguing journalism and investing ask identical questions. He notes Michael Moritz and others made the same journalist-to-VC jump.

“And really, as a journalist and a publisher, you ask questions and you try to get to truth, or at least you used to. Now you kind of— we could talk about late-stage journalism, but back in the day, original journalism, you were supposed to be independent and just ask really honest, fair questions, get the answer, don't double-check that your facts were correct and publish a story and not put a linkbaiting headline on it.”