Molly Wood wrote a critical article about Jason Calacanis's Weblogs in the mid-2000s, sparking public conflict. They reconciled when he appeared on her podcast Buzz Out Loud, and she came to trust his reliability. That relationship eventually led her to co-host This Week in Startups and move into venture capital.
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But I would love to hear how you and Jason met and how you ended up becoming a co-host on This Week in Startups.
I met Jason in the mid-2000s, and I've told him the story. We met when he got mad at me on the internet and tried to incite a little bit of a riot against me. No way. Oh, yeah. He was like upset about something I had written about Weblogs, you know, his network of blogs that he created and changed the entire Online journalism industry with. We patched it up over time. He came on our podcast, Buzz Out Loud, and over the years, like, I just sort of grew to understand that that's who he is, but that at his core, he's a really good person and you can trust him. You can count on him to do the right thing. And I started coming on This Week in Startups as a guest, and we just have been having this kind of rolling conversation for a long time. And then it just coincided with My interest in climate solutions and wanting to just be direct, like, have boots on the ground.