Naval

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

Very glad to have this behind me. It never made sense but neither does the @rstormsf trial. Wild how quickly you can have your life upended. I'm grateful for those who saw through it and for my stellar legal team. Now, turning my attention back to @krakenfx. 🐙🚀

I am a French citizen. France is currently on a path of civilizational degeneracy. It is censoring speech, censoring the right-wing party, targeting tech founders, and going after encrypted messaging. A change of course is needed!

If it upsets you that someone doesn’t respond, communicate, or give you attention, you may be incorrectly assessing your importance.

Charisma is the ability to project confidence + love at the same time. Charismatic people don’t need to be around you but choose to be around you.

Most companies fail at product and distribution but it’s easier to blame distribution. If you’re failing at distribution, check the product.

“ Inspiration is perishable “

There's no ego-trip bigger than the no-ego trip.

It’s the people who most want to be seen as selfless that you have to worry about.

The co-exist people are unable to co-exist with people who disagree with them.

My immigration policy: anyone who agrees with me is welcome into the country. Anyone who does not, is not.

Republicans can live next to Democrats but Democrats can’t live next to Republicans.

Never make a promise after you’ve had a drink.

IBM couldn’t build an OS so they were forced to partner with Microsoft. Apple can’t build an AI so they’ll be forced to partner with the next Microsoft. The only way out is to collaboratively fund a competitive open source model.

Technology will eventually have to drive human evolution (embryo selection, gene editing). Otherwise, our technology will evolve faster than our biology and lead to Paleolithic humans facing Neolithic stressors.

Link: nav.al/arena Transcript: Naval: Life is lived in the arena. You only learn by doing. And if you’re not doing, then all the learning you’re picking up is too general and too abstract. Then it truly is hallmark aphorisms. You don’t know what applies where and…

Podcast clip 2: "Life is lived in the arena."

The job of a startup is to find undiscovered talent and distill it into a product.

If AI lets non-developers replace junior developers, imagine what it lets junior developers do.