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• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  when I'm putting money into Calm and they're doing at that time, I think they had $10,000 in total revenue. I really don't, I mean, back in those days, I wasn't doing really any diligence. I was just saying, I like this company. I like the founder. I've used the product and we weren't doing like too much diligence, but as we started to put in 500 K a million dollars, now we started putting somebody on it

• bullish fact_claim Scott Orn

  Insight Ventures wants to talk to Calm.

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  So, in both these cases, they have been tremendous returns for us.

• neutral fact_claim Zach Coelius

  Now is that directly competitive with comp? No. But does calm have sleep stories? Yes. So they have sleep story for kids? Yes. Do they do massage? No. And what that does is it actually helps me with the calm team because now I've got investments that if they want to do an acquisition later, okay, you know, maybe these two companies could come together

• bullish assessment Zach Coelius

  Now, you look at something like calm.com or clubhouse, you know, they can go into another market and even localize into another language so quickly because there's all these third-party tools and infrastructure.

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  the number two investment we ever made was calm was the first syndicate we ever did, and they charged and they used to charge $10 for the app one time, then subscriptions came out. And because of subscriptions, consumers are now very delighted to pay monthly or yearly a subscription for 60 to $300 a year, if they're getting value from it, I believe I prefer the consumer subscriptions, I'll tell you why I think it makes people more focused on providing extraordinary value.

• neutral fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  when we got to our fund one we owned um i think now we own two percent of superhuman uh five percent of calm five or maybe six percent of density

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  robin hood that happened calm that happened and uh superhuman that happened so we we had four unicorns come out of the first launch fund

• bullish prediction Unattributed

  I was like, yeah, he's an investor too Like he's gonna make a lot of money off of calm like It's definitely happened.

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  That in the entire six years of being an investor in that company's like lebron james uses calm

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  lebron in my portfolio Invested in and became a spokesperson for calm calm And I can tell you I had more people come to me in that month to talk about calm

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  I saw that also with our investment in calm. Yeah. When they went, you know, they, they owned a meditation, but they also then started to own the sleep portion of that.

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  That's why I invested in the company. I thought that this company could change the world. And I am so happy to see calm doing that every day.

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  An example would be meditation apps calm and headspace got millions of people to pay for meditation apps. The total addressable market for meditation apps before those two apps existed was $0.10 years ago, nobody was paying for meditation apps. Now, you have probably 10 million or 20 million people paying for all the different meditation apps out there. They induced that market to exist.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  Millions of employees at over 600 companies like Lincoln, Iterable and Universal Studios use calm for business. Obviously, you guys know I'm an investor in calm. I've loved the product forever. And I've always wondered what are they going to get into the enterprise? Well, here they are.

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  you know, just basis points in Uber, but we own five or 6% of calm. So that shows you when you own 5% of something worth two or 3 billion, you know, and you own 10 basis points or 20 base points of whatever, of something that's, you know, 100 billion, you can have slightly similar outcomes

• bullish assessment Zach Coelius

  Some companies like Webflow, Bubble, Calm.com, Notion have skipped rounds of funding. And we were involved in Calm.com. And we watched them skip two rounds of funding, three rounds of funding. And that meant our percentage ownership along with the founders was very high, because we didn't dilute. And then as a company came worth and worth more and more, we didn't have to put up a bunch of pro rata, we didn't have to keep investing to keep our percentage ownership. And that was amazing for everyb

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  they did research and studies this was released if we were to talk to the founder and they're certainly invited to come on uh next monday to talk with sandeep and i um so shout out to the founder come on i would

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  other than meditation and equanimity and you know help and and there's science that's been done at ucla and other places the mindfulness center at ucla has a lot of research and thoughtfulness around uh using uh meditation for things like ptsd or lowering anxiety etc said another way thoughtfulness

• neutral fact_claim Alex Edelson

  So we sold 24% of our position going up that had nothing to do with our belief in the business of the founders. It just had to do with the fact that, well, 50 X, how often do you get a 50 X and you have the ability to sell some of it and lock in a 50 X and then do it again at, you know, man, 200 X.

• neutral fact_claim Alex Edelson

  We had an opportunity to sell another 10% of our position. Another, I think we sold $11 million of our position, uh, $12 million in our position when it hit a billion change. And I took that opportunity.

• neutral fact_claim Alex Edelson

  we invested at calm as an example at 5 million. We had the opportunity to sell 10% of our position at 250. It was like a 40 some odd X, you know, 50 X. I took that opportunity to sell 10% of our position.

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  And then when I've got people emailing me saying, Hey, can you introduce me to Vlad from Robinhood? Or, Hey, I'm my wife, uh, my daughter, my cousin, my son is using calm, uh, and they love it. Can you introduce me to Alex and Michael from calm? You know, like you, you start getting those kinds of inbounds from really top tier investors, or they want to talk to you about it.

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  Uber, Robinhood, Calm are amongst the ones that I've hit that have gone supernova. In fact, Uber is considered the greatest investment over the last decade or two in Silicon Valley. Robinhood, you know, doing fantastic as well. And Calm, not yet public, but another great company.

• bullish prediction Jason Calacanis

  We're going to sell a lot of eight sleeps and a lot of calm meditation apps.

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  calm was the number one app of the year. According to apple, they gave it the app of the year, not just health, but overall

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  The people who are super breakouts probably don't need to come to the pod, right? So Uber, Robinhood, calm, they're not coming to a pod. You know, they, they, they figured it out. They have escape velocity.

• bullish endorsement David Friedberg

  And then I think after that, it was, you know, multiple billions. So when you look at that trajectory, they skipped multiple rounds of financing, which means the founders own a lot more of the company and my original six or 7%. My 6% ownership or whatever was didn't get diluted all that much. So I still own four or 5% of that company. It's amazing.

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  So we saw with calm calm they raised money in the first round, when we put in 378,000, I believe. Sometimes you don't forget those numbers when it's a big win, put 378,000 when it was a $5 million company or so, then they let some friends in to invest at 20. And then the next round of funding was at 250. The next round, if that was 1.2 billion.

• bullish assessment David Friedberg

  now for calm what was the market for a meditation app before calm existed uh and headspace their competitor there really was no market for it meditation was this weird thing you did if you lived in santa monica and like some churches and basements or rec centers or a yoga studio on the weekends might have one or two meditation classes or there were you know five thousand dollar you know courses you could take it wasn't something that was in the general perception of the public and sure you could

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  Calm for business can help your employees to be their best selves at work. And there is no better time to start fresh than in the new year. Calm wants to help you kickstart your mental wellbeing initiatives, like empowering employees to stress less and to get them to rest better and to build mental resilience. Calm has a library of specifically designed content that includes lo-fi music playlists, quick breathing breaks, guided meditations, and hundreds of soothing sleep stories. So you can glid

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  I had, you know, Alex from calm over to play tennis at my house. And, you know, we were just talking for hours, you know, like, from the morning until the night. And you know, the conversation never ends.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  Famously, when I invested in calm, they had $10,000 in revenue, I think total to date, and they were charging $10 for the app. So they had sold 1000 people on paying $10 for meditation. And for me, that was like, great, if you can sell 1000, you can sell a million. And here we are, that company's worth, you know, billions of dollars, and we own five or 6% of it.

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  when I was putting 50 K in launch fund one into calm, he said, you know, you could share that with the syndicate.

• bullish fact_claim David Friedberg

  And, you know, that fund hit calm and Robin Hood and, you know, a bunch of other, you know, corns and it did very well. It will historically do very well.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  calm had a very simple product in the App Store making, I think $10 per sale and they had sold 1000 copies of it. And it was very simple and basic and they had met with 40 venture capitalists and professional investors and nobody would invest in it.

• neutral fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  Uber and calm at four and 5 million, okay, maybe, you know, those should have been $10 million valuations, but they should not have been $50 million valuations or $40 million valuations

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  I am so proud to be an investor in this amazing company. And now six, seven years later to have them sponsor the podcast. I'm so proud and it just warms my heart. 40 million people have downloaded Calm. And as you know, because I've said it a hundred times, it was Apple's 2017 app of the year. What an amazing honor.

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  We have an investment in brilliant.org, which is doing brilliant. It's education. We have Calm, FitBod, Steezy, and ToneBase. All five consumer subscriptions. Calm doing $160 million a year.

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  we we look to pair our position uh when we're 10 20 30 40 x by just 10 percent and uh we did that with calm at 250 and then a billion and change on that 378 000 investment i wound up selling 20 of our position i think it wound up being about 12 or 13 million in total between those two transactions like a million at the first one and 12 at the second

1. 2028-02-16 We're going to sell a lot of eight sleeps and a lot of calm meditation apps. · Prediction · pending

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