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After watching Elon build SpaceX and Tesla from near-death, Jason has some insights.
In this TWiST highlight, he boils his entire investing philosophy down to three rules… Back the team and the vision, not the hype. Dollar-cost average into companies you believe in (buy a little at a time, consistently,...
And that's just his gift. He is able to pursue multiple of those visions at the same time like Steve Jobs. Very few entrepreneurs are able to pursue this kind of vision concurrently. That's his gift.
That's his gift. He's able to keep three or four business lines in his brain at once. And I've sat with him while he does meetings. He's got a meeting about the nuances of, you know, the X, formerly known as Twitter, business and how it's structured, how the functionality works on a very granular basis, and then he's able to task switch and talk to the people about the latest Starlink constellation. Then he's able to task switch to long-term. 'Hey, show me the designs of the solar arrays for the data centers in space.'
Yeah, we saw this at All-In Summit. He was talking and he would go on this really long tangent about robotic hands and, 'Oh, we're redesigning Optimus's hands so they are more like human hands,' and then he would jump right into, 'Oh, we're going to put these solar panels in space and that's how we're going to power the data center.' He's, it's — you're right. He could just jump between like 18 different fantastical ideas and lock in on each one.
Things in their brain like that. That's why I advise them. And I'll have many founders say, 'Hey, Elon runs two businesses. So why can't I?' And I'm like, 'Cuz you're not Elon.'
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Calacanis, J. (2026, June 15). Jason Calacanis's Investing Philosophy in 3 Rules [Interview transcript]. This Week in Startups Clips. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/987189/
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Jason Calacanis. "Jason Calacanis's Investing Philosophy in 3 Rules." This Week in Startups Clips, 15 Jun. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/987189/.
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author = {Jason Calacanis},
title = {Jason Calacanis's Investing Philosophy in 3 Rules},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, This Week in Startups Clips. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2026},
month = {jun},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/987189/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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