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Naval Ravikant

14 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2016 by Rick Marini · said 103 times in 43 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (43), Matt Mochary (10), Brian Norgard (8), Sahil Lavingia (6), Avlok Kohli (6), Tyler Willis (4), Shervin Pishevar (3), Jude Gomila (3)

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Everything said about Naval Ravikant, oldest first

Nov 14, 2016
Insight
Marini: Angels must make 30 investments before they know what they're doing
“If you're serious about becoming an angel investor, you're going to need to do probably 30 investments before you really know what you're doing.”
Rick Marini Nov 14, 2016 ▶ 8:27 20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
Apr 10, 2017
Insight
Naval Ravikant: Founders should prioritize control over maximum valuation
“So I would rather take a low valuation and keep control in terms of board control and control of protective provisions, rather than vice versa, just maximize the valuation, but give up control.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 11:34 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017
Insight
Naval Ravikant: Good founders unbundle venture capital advice, control, and capital
“Venture is a bundle of advice, control, and money, and good entrepreneurs unbundle those things and kind of purchase what they need at market rates.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 10:20 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017 negative
Opinion
Naval Ravikant: VCs should not make a living arbitraging information
“And it seemed odd to me that in day and age of free information and the internet that you could still make a living by essentially arbitraging information. And that just didn't seem right to me.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 3:13 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Naval Ravikant: Stratechery is the only paid newsletter I subscribe to
“Ben Thompson's Strategery is probably the only newsletter that I pay for and I get huge value out of.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 23:40 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017
Disclosure
Naval Ravikant: AngelList began as a free community service without a business model
“So Nivi and I basically decided to take venture hacks and use that as a launching platform and basically start distributing deal flow for free to all of our high quality investor friends. And there was no grand plan or business model in mind. It was more of a …”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 3:22 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Naval Ravikant: Hit Forge made 120 investments and produced multiple unicorns
“In my hit forge, which was the name of my little fund that I ran for a while, I did a lot of investments. I probably did about a 120 investments, but in that group, you know, I've got at least three, maybe five so-called unicorns.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 8:17 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2022
Naval Ravikant: Drones will replace every weapon system on the planet
“I think drones are going to replace every single weapon system on the planet. They're going to replace Everything from aircraft carriers to airplanes, to infantrymen, soldiers. Once drones get small enough and effective enough, no other form of character will …”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 16:04 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017 negative
Insight
Naval Ravikant rejects five-year strategic plans due to rapid tech changes
“I don't believe in five year plans or grand master strategic visions because I think the world just changes too quickly these days.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 21:02 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Apr 10, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Naval Ravikant: Cryptocurrencies will replace extraneous financial infrastructure
“If you look at how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are going to play out, they'll probably do away with a lot of the extraneous financial infrastructure that we have.”
Naval Ravikant Apr 10, 2017 ▶ 16:38 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
Jan 15, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Destin: Naval Ravikant Created AngelList to Decouple VC Capital From Advice
“AngelList, the original vision of AngelList, because Naval hates VCs, was why don't I separate the skill set here between people who are good at investing and people who would be good advisors, and I'll break it open through a network.”
Fred Destin Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 17:57 20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
Apr 17, 2020
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Kothari: Naval Ravikant Wrote Notion's First Angel Check
“I think the exact first one might have been Naval. I think he was the first one who put money in the company and then, but then a lot of other individuals were very close to him.”
Akshay Kothari Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 33:41 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
Aug 24, 2020
Disclosure
Gumroad raised $10M from Kleiner Perkins, Levchin, Ravikant, and Sacca
“Raised ten million bucks from Kleiner Perkins, Max Lefgen, Naval, Chris Saka, the wonder kind of story, college dropout, everything like that.”
Sahil Lavingia Aug 24, 2020 ▶ 4:31 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Pishevar: Benchmark Hired Private Investigators Against Naval Ravikant
“There's a history of VCs who have done this type of thing and in Benchmark's case, they did it against Naval. They hired private investigators and Naval Ravikant. He had a company called eGroups, and he got thrown out of it.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 57:39 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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