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Ankur Nagpal

19 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2024 by Ankur Nagpal · said 11 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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2020 5 mentions in 1 episode

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Jan 17, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Nagpal: My venture fund charges zero management fees
“The average venture fund charges 20 to 25% just in management fees, and the average person does not realize that we charge zero percent.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 24:08 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nagpal: A Facebook co-founder repeatedly took his viral personality quizzes
“One of the Facebook founders actually took that quiz multiple times. And I know that because you get their Facebook user ID in the database. So user ID number, I'm not going to tell you which number it is, is, was in our database.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 2:21 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024
Disclosure
Nagpal: QSBS eliminated state and federal taxes on first $10M exit
“When I sold my company, I live in New York state and in New York state, even New York state doesn't charge you taxes. So I only had to pay New York city taxes on the first ten million dollars in gains.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 7:25 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024 negative
Opinion
Nagpal: Actively managed funds promising outsized returns are a scam
“What I think is a little bit of a scam is a lot of the financial services industry that tries to promise you outsized returns.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 22:48 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nagpal: Made first million dollars before age 21 via Facebook apps
“We created these personality quizzes, and then friend quizzes and stuff, and yeah, you know, millions of daily users was able to make a million dollars before S-Twenty-One, which was pretty cool.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 2:36 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024
Disclosure
Nagpal: Early employees should get direct shares over options for QSBS
“But this time around, I've given all my early team members shares instead of options so they can start their clock ticking.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 12:32 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Nagpal: Loaning employees cash to exercise stock options at peak valuations was a bad idea
“I think it's undoubtedly a bad idea. It was a 20, 21 valuation, like tens of billions of dollars. Like it's not good.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 16:40 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Nagpal: Trusts can theoretically multiply the $10M QSBS tax exemption infinitely
“I set up trust for my future children, trust for charity, and each of these trusts get their own ten million dollar benefit, which multiplies this, theoretically, as many times as possible.”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 11:19 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
Jan 17, 2024 positive
Insight
Nagpal: Guaranteed tax savings beat trying to generate alpha in markets
“I do think better tax strategy can actually create alpha. Alpha is a, you know, finance term for like, You will outperform. And using that tax alpha to just put more dollars in the market, I think is a smarter approach”
Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 23:29 $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
May 14, 2025
Insight
Nagpal: Investors should seek alpha through tax optimization rather than stock picking
“So most people should not try and find alpha on the investment side. However, if you can be smart about saving money on taxes, that is where your alpha comes from.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 10:37 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Nagpal: Credit card point arbitrage creates big intermediary business opportunity
“Once you get good at it, the value is so much more than the dollar amount, but finding the person, but the average person is not going to get good at it, so finding the intermediary that's good at it, extract some value off the top.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 40:49 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Nagpal: Teachable was acquired for $250 million
“It's two 50, but close enough.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 2:20 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nagpal: Businesses bypassing the US industrial food system will succeed
“Secondly, I think anything that helps us break out of the US food system will do quite well. And again, probably more so in cities like New York, but it's kind of funny, like every Friday evening, I go and meet my like raw milk dealer, which is super sketchy. …”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 32:33 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025
Opinion
Nagpal: DIY home maintenance is high-status in US, unlike India
“Like, self, self-reliance was not a status symbol. In the US, it is a status symbol. Like, you are higher status if you can actually fix stuff. In India, it's like, oh, you have someone to do all this stuff for you.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 46:08 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Nagpal: Teachable exit paid him over $40M in cash plus equity
“I mean, we made like a little bit over 40 in cash. The rest is equity, but the equity is pretty nice. It's just this random thing that, you know, keeps paying you out.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 3:28 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nagpal: Goldman Sachs wealth management returned 6% versus 13% S&P 500
“The best part of my portfolio that they did was simply indexing the S&P. The S&P has returned about 13% in that time. They did a lot of other stupid shit that averaged it down to six percent.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 5:01 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025
Disclosure
Nagpal: Uses mega backdoor 401(k) to contribute $70K annually to Roth IRA
“If you can structure your for one K in a way that you can put in 70,000 dollars a year into your Roth IRA, which I do now, honestly, just the sport of the sport of it is, is fun enough.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 23:23 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nagpal: Group invested high 7-figures into Chennai Super Kings at $1B valuation
“So I put in seven, seven, the group we represent put in high seven figures, of which I think I was, 20% was my own dollars. The valuation of the team was close to a billion dollars, so as a percentage, it's still, still tiny. The team is called Chennai Super K…”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 57:48 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 bearish
Insight
Nagpal: High-net-worth investors should pay flat advisor fees instead of AUM percentages
“I think financial advice is incredibly valuable. I think they serve a really good purpose, but at a certain point, the math ongoing flat fee is just substantially better for you, right? Like if you have five million dollars, fifty million dollars, five hundred…”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 8:02 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
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