Welcome to VCs Tweeting Badly, A Semi-Regular Look at the Terrible Ideas of Rich People

Once upon a time, the masters of our universe lived in big-ass castles far far away from the lowly peons o'erwhicht they ruled. If, twixt gambling over the borders of nation states and training learned counselors to train butlers to train houseboys to train curs to rotate their mutton chops over the fire, these Great Men were struck by a Thought of such o'erweening brilliance that it must be shared forthwith with the common folks, they would summon a scribe, set forth such Thought, will into being a thousand copyscribes, and send forth an army of messengers on horseback to make known their Thought to the people. 

Those were the days. 

Today, the masters of our universe are schlubby dudes with too much money and not enough manual labor to keep them busy. They don't need learned counselors. They are the smartest guys in the room. (Seriously they bought Apple in 1873, how smart was that!?) They don't need scribes and copyscribes and messengers on horseback. They have Twitter. 

Welcome to VCs Tweeting Badly, a semi-regular look at the terrible ideas of the rich people who rule our world. 

For our first edition, we bring you Jason Calacanis. Calacanis, or @Jason, as he's known on Twitter, is less a venture capitalist than an angel investor, but tomato, tomato he's rich, he's in tech, and he think's he's smarter than you. 

Like the rest of the world, Jason had quite a Friday. He started off the day thinking not of terrorism, but of the scourge of educated and agitated college students haunting America. Irritated by said college students speaking out against persistent racism on U.S. campuses, he had some Thoughts. 

3/I figured out a way to lobby crash every event, blog everything I learned & tried a half dozen projects until things started to click.

— jason (@Jason) November 13, 2015

5/My belief is that anyone can be successful in technology if they commit themselves, stop being a victim, keep learning & keep networking.

— jason (@Jason) November 13, 2015

6/There is simply too much opportunity in technology to fail. If you fail in tech, the worst case scenario is a six figure salary!

— jason (@Jason) November 13, 2015

Here's the better roadmap for #MillionStudentMarch: Get Skills, Skills = $$$, Get $$$, $$$ = Power, Get Power, Power = Change. Skills=Power

— jason (@Jason) November 13, 2015

These are some nice Thoughts from Jason, a nobody from Brooklyn who gate-crashed a bunch of events and got rich. It's a fun story for someone for whom the worst case scenario is a six-figure salary at a Fortune 500 company. It's so sweet.

Now try gate-crashing fancy tech events if you're black and from Brooklyn. But actually please don't try it, because the worst case scenario is absolutely not a six-figure salary. 

If you have the stomach for it, Jason went on to share some Thoughts about the terrorist attacks in Paris and Islam. They are, to put it mildly, Not Good Thoughts. 

4/Jews are being stabbed in the streets daily, Paris is under regular assault & the US has probably escaped due to spying on citizens.

— jason (@Jason) November 14, 2015

6/people are worried about being PC in the face of a group of insane people who want to kill all non Muslims--and wipe Israel off the map!

— jason (@Jason) November 14, 2015

But worry not. Jason has had another Thought. Jason has the solution. 

One of these days, soon, I'm going to move to 1 tweet a day and focus on writing my book.

— jason (@Jason) November 15, 2015

Now let's just hope some he finds some learned counselors to hold him to it.