I get ten calls from VCs every week asking me what’s my next company. I say, ‘I already have a new company—it’s called AOL, LLC, and it’s going to be really big!’ ”

Calacanis laughs, and so do I. But then I wonder if the joke will be on him, as it was on Marc Andreessen.

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