Naval Ravikant

“Mark and I have kept up a high bandwidth conversation for almost a decade now. Mark and Ben for sure. Neville Rovi-Kant you know, who's a very good friend of mine. And Armstrong, Fred Urson. These are really smart guys who like basically folks who I get a boun…”

“Her brand of self-promoting herself as a journalist is confrontation. She gets in confrontations with Keith Raboi, with Balaji, with Naval, with whoever, right? She just goes and picks fights on Twitter with Marc Andreessen. And so she goes to the biggest name…”

“And he recently had a meeting for his syndicate members. I had a friend who went and he said something like, I'm no longer going to do B to B software. Because even though it's like a surefire way to make money, it's just boring to me. And now I'm only going t…”

“I don't think a billionaire, I would say no, but you know, stupid money for sure, right? Like you know, hundreds of millionaire for sure.”

“Ends up becoming full, like, platform and network, basically LinkedIn for the startup community, and now it's a multi-billion dollar, two or three billion dollar, at least, company that is, you know, the best place to go, you know, list your startup, get, rais…”

“Naval's point is work like a lion. Like if you're a creative person or you want to be sort of wealthy, which is freedom and time, working on stuff you love and creating a lot of value in the world work like a lion, not like a cow.”

“The ancient struggle was scarcity. You know, the ancient struggle was we just didn't have enough. We didn't have enough food. We didn't have enough water. We didn't have enough you know, access to medicine, entertainment, whatever. And the modern struggle is a…”

“I want this next chapter of my life to be all about, I'm doing things where the only criteria is, the act of doing it has to be rewarding enough for it to have been worth it. And that one criteria eliminates like 98% of the possible things I want to do.”

“Naval's framework is is like, well, of course, early in your career, you're at least partially a mercenary. Otherwise you're never going to find the opportunity and go win it. And then later in your life, you're a missionary, right? You're not zero sum. You're…”

“I remember early days, Bitcoin, you know, was trading under a thousand dollars, and I said to Naval, so how big does this get? And he said, I said, what's the price of Bitcoin? He said, a million. And I said, a million? It's only at like, you know, 800. And I …”