Taking bets on Calacanis's AOL tenure

Steve Baker at BW Blogspotting excerpts Jason Calacanis's advice to AOL on talking to customers.

This comes after AOL sprung ads on bloggers' pages without notice, and then proceded to act like a dick about it, playing out a tired old corporate command-and-control stern parent role.

You know, I may have had the wrong idea about Jason. He's so good at making money online that I guess I didn't realize he was so cluetrainful.

I wonder how long he'll last as an employee. These employ-the-acquired-entrepreneur deals don't work. Not ever, in my observation. If the contract allows I think it's usually better for the acquiree to get out as soon as possible after the first hint of culture clash, while there are still some good feelings left on both sides.